KING BIRD OF PARADISE. 
feathers which cover the belly are white, but 
black near the wings. The naked quills are 
slender and black, and rolled up into a kind of 
balls at the end ; on one side of which balls 
there are very fine shaggy hairs, their upper 
parts being of a shining deep green, and their 
under ones of a dusky yellow. 
JEdwards, too, who unquestionably both de*- 
scribed and figured from nature, says, in ex- 
press terms, speaking of his King Bird of Pa- 
radise, ** this very elegant bird is about the 
size of the chaffinch." The description, how- 
ever, corresponds in several particulars with 
that of Sonnerat; whocertainlv saw^ the livinfj 
bird at it's full growth, while Edwards might 
possibly describe from .the stuffed skin of ^ 
young one. 
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