THE STORY OF THE BIRDS . 531 
extend in a broad band across the forehead and chin as far as the eye, which 
is bright yellow. The beak is pale lead-blue; and the feet, which are rather 
large, and very strongly and well formed, are of a pale ashy pink. The two 
middle feathers of the tail have no webs, except a very small one at the base 
CREEPER. BLUE-THROATED REDSTART. ROBIN. REDSTART. REDSTART. 
WHITE-NECKED HUMMING BIRD. RED-BACKED SHRIKE. 
CRESTED HUMMING BIRD. COMMON JAY. EUROPEAN KING PARADISE SMALLEST HUMMING 
EUROPEAN ROLLER. NUT CRACKER. BIRD. BIRD 
SUPERB PARADISE BIRD. 
and at the extreme tip, forming wire-like cirrhi, which spread out in an 
elegant double curve, and vary from twenty-four to thirty inches in length. 
From each side of the body, beneath the wings, springs a dense tuft of long 
and delicate plumes, sometimes two feet in length, of the most intense 
