LESSER KING BIRD OF 
PARADISE. 
The beautiful bii'd, which we have here fi- 
gured, from Edwards, under the appellation of 
the Lesser King Bird of Paradise, is mentioned 
ill our former account of Sonnerat's King Bird 
of Paradise : this being described as only the 
Size of the ChaiEnch, while that of Sonnerat 
is as large as a Blackbird. Edv/ards, however, 
calls the " present small bird, the supposed 
King of the Greater Birds of Paradise!" 
As we have copied, on a smaller scale, the 
£giire of Edwards, which was exactly the size 
of the living bird, we shall transcribe his entire 
description — 
" This bird," he says, is figured as near 
it's natural bigness as I could draw it. I be- 
lieve- that, comparatively, it imy be about the 
size of a ChafEnch : it's bill longer; and it's 
legs stronger, in proportion. It has a very- 
short tail ; the wings, when closed, reacliing :i 
good way beyond if. The bill is pretty straight, 
and something slender: it is. of a yellow colour; 
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