Foreign & British Birds at the L.C.B.A. Show. 277 
but unique Giant Baibet, very tame and much improved ; V.H.C., Sandy 
^Mexican Green Jay ; H.C., Dewhurst, Glossy Starlintj ; C, Shepherd, 
Greater Hill Mynali ; Rattigan, nice Red-headed Starling. 
The outstanding feature of this class was the Birds of 
Paradise; these were the great attraction to the visiting public, 
having been noticed in the daily press, numbers visited the Show 
simply to see these, but the aisles occupied by the foreign birds were 
all largely patronised. The sensation was Mr. Millsum's unique 
Hunstein's Magnificent Bird of Paradise {Diphyllodes maonificLi). 
It is a native of the Malay Archipelago; beautiful and unique as 
this bird is, I only purpose giving a brief descri[)tion here, as Mr. 
Goodchild is preparing a coloured drawing, and it will appear in 
an early issue of Bijd Notes with a full description. The plumage 
is very silken and lustrous, and its hues change materially under 
the play of light. 
Description : The top of the head is golden-brown, with 
the extreme tips of the feathers picked out in dusky or rnddy- 
bronze ; the upper back is scarlet, passing into the brown of the 
middle and lower back ; the mid-back is variegated, with some 
golden feathers lipped with brown ; at the bottom of the nape of 
the neck a lovely double cape of straw-yellow lies upon the 
scarlet of the upper back ; this cape it has the power of raising, 
at such times it appears like an out-spread fan growing out of 
the nape of the neck ; the wings are rich-brown and golden- 
orange ; the tail, apart from the two wires is insignificant, the 
feathers being barely an inch long, the two wires are metallic 
green and webbed only along the inner edge; they cross each 
other, curl outwardly and then inwardly again, forming almost 
complete circles on either side; the under-stirface is purplish- 
brown, the shield over the throat and breast is metallic green, 
changing under the influence of light to purplish or bronzy ; 
down the centre of this shield, extending down the throat to top 
of the breast is a narrow strip of scaled feathers of the richest 
of peacock-greens, glistening like the scales of a snake ; the 
breast shield is narrowly edged with peacock-blue. Total length, 
excluding the tail wires about 74^ inches. 
The King Bird of Paradise is of quite another type of 
beaut}'; it is now in its third season, and Mr. Maxwell is to be 
congratulated on keeping it in such exquisite and flawless con- 
