THE 
VAILLANTIAN PARADISE-BIRD. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Bill covered at the base by velvet-like plumes. 
Side-Feathers beneath the wings, in most spe- 
cies, extending far beyond the rest of the 
plumage. 
Legs strong : feet formed for walking. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, ^c. 
Violet-Black Paradise-Bird, with loose-webbed 
snow-white side-feathers terminating in 
very long naked filiform shafts. 
Le Nebuleux. 
Levaill, Par ad. 
The present species of Paradise-Bird is beautifully 
figured in the splendid work on that genus published 
by Mons. Levaillant, whose specimen however seems 
to have had the bill a little injured by being warped 
upwards ; a particular which is corrected in the pre- 
sent plate. I his bird, like the rest of its congeners^ 
is an inhabitant of the Molucca islands. 
