GREATER BIRD OF PARADISE. 
breast, and the wings, it is of a beautiful 
brown, inclining to cinnamon colour. The 
two shafts, or filaments, springing from the 
rump, though yellowish at their rise, are a 
dark brown colour approaching to black. 
This species is chiefly remarkable for the 
plats of feathers under the wings on each side, 
which extend themselves prodigiously bevond 
the common feathers of tlie tail. Tliese fea- 
thers are of an inconceivably fine structure, 
and exceedingly light; and the webs are so 
very open, that they may be seen through like 
gauze. They are of a light yellow colour, 
which softens by degrees, towards their extre- 
mities, till it sinks into white. 
The legs and feet, which are shaped like 
tliose of the pye kind, and armed with 
claws of fome strength, are of a dark brown 
colour. 
There is a fine specimen of this bird in the 
Leverian Museum. 
