BIRDS, PICiE. ParUifea. 
Carnncu- Cinereous ; tai], and quill-feathers black ; crown and 
with warty excrefcencies. Cocijconii 
Inhabits the Cupt oj Good Ilopi ? 6 inches lon^* 
17. PARADISE A. Bill covered with ^ 
belt of downy feathers at the bale* 
feathers of the fides very long : t^'^ 
of the tailfeathers naked. 
Bird of Parddif^' 
The birds' this genus| .chic'ny inhabit Nezn Guinea, 
whence in the dry fealbn they migrate into the adjaC^^ 
illands; ncprils Ihiall, covered with feathers; tail with’, 
feathers, the 2 middle-ones feathered at the bale and tipcat’ 
legs robufl, the middle-toe of the fore-feet connefted as 
as the firft joint to the outer. 
Apoda. Chefnut ; neck beneath gold-green ; feathers on the 
longer than the bodyj 2 middle tail-feathers \o 4 ’ 
briitly. Greater f 
2. Lefs ; body above yellow ; fe'athers on the fides yellowil'’ 
white. 
Inhabits the iflands near New .Guinea, and in the_ rainy ' 
returns back to Nem Guinea ; feeds on the larger moths 
butterflies; flies in flocks with a leader at their head, . 
making a noife like the thrufli. 
The 2 long tail-feathers are nakcA, llraigbt and tapering to 
tip ; the tail, as it is improperly called, is noxliing 
than the long featlters of the back and flanks, 
Chefnut-pufple, beneath whitifh ; a green-gold ban<J “f 
the breaft ; 2 middle tail-feathers filiform, feathef^n’ 
femiliinar at the tip. KirgJij 
Inhabits iflands of the Jlndzau Gceart, and returns to t u 
Guinea in the rainy feafon ; is lefs than the laft and 
rarer ; folitaiy, and fecks for red berries ; 5-^7 inches lo^SV i 
Breaft blueifh ; cirn of the tail very long ; feathers undef 
wings longer than the reft ; tail fhort, tAincate. 
A triangular naked fpace behind the eyes ; head and 
brown. ■ 
Tvijlis, 
