GOLDEN BIRD OF PARADISE. 
This very beautiful bird, which was first 
figured and described by Edwards, is the 
Oriolus Aureus, of Linnaeus j the Paradise 
Roller, of Buffon ; the Golden Bird of Para- 
dise, of Edwards ; and the Paradisea Aurea> 
and I6lerius Indicus, of Latham. ^ 
The figure of Edwards, copied by us on a 
somewhat smaller scale, was of the natural 
size, being about eight inches long. The bill, 
which is both long and strong in proportion to 
the magnitude of the bird, is of a brownish 
colour towards the head, and black at the 
point, which bends downward very slightly* 
The eyes seemed, in the dried bird, so very 
small, as to be scarcely perceptible: they were 
placed rather near, on the sides of the head, 
and just over the angles of the mouth. Be« 
tween the eyes and bill, and almost round the 
bill," says Edwards, it has black feathers, 
like plush or velvet, narrow at the base of 
the upper mandible ; from the lower mandible 
of the bill, it extends itself about an inch down 
the throat. The head, upper side of the neck, 
and 
