4©8 The Hiflory c/ANIMALS. 
who have mentioned it, are found to have fwallowed the falfity, and defcribe it under 
the name of Apos, or the bird without feet. Gefner has given a figure of it, and 
fubmics to it’s want of feet with great readinefs; but, as he would have it haveVome 
way of refting, he tells us, that, when inclined to do fo, it twifts the two long fea¬ 
thers of it’s tail round the bough of a tree, and fo hangs with it’s head downward. It 
is at this time not fo often brought over, as thofe of more beauty. Aldrovand calls 
it Manucodiata quinta five vulgaris; and Ray, Willughby, and others have borrowed 
his name 5 Gefner and others call it Paradifaea, five Apos Indica j others, Paradifea 
vulgaris. 
Paradifcea fufca fronte viridefcente , cotta fu~ 
ferius flavo. %\yi ftfttg £)f Mft)£ 
The brown Paradifcea , with a greenifh front % flf 
and the neck yellow. 
This appears of the fize of the jack-daw, but, when examined, the greater part of 
it’s bulk is found to be owing to it’s feathers, the body being, in reality, very finall: 
the head is fmall, flatted on the crown, and rounded at the tides: the eyes are large* 
and of a piercing afpecft; the beak is three quarters of an inch long, and of a black¬ 
fill colour, with a tinge of olive; the upper chap is longer, and the under fihorter, and 
the upper is almoft entirely black, the other brownilh : the nofirils are of an oval fi¬ 
gure, and tolerably large : the head is of a beautiful brown, except that toward the 
bafe of the beak, and about the angles of the mouth, there are fome beautiful feathers 
of a glofly green : the back-part of the neck is of a beautiful gold yellow, and the 
fore-part of the neck, from the beak to the breaft, is of an elegant, glofly green, 
with a tinge of gold flhining through it, much like the colour on the backs of fome of 
our beetles: the back, the wings, the tail, and indeed the whole upper part of the bird, 
are of a deep brown: the breaft is alfo of a ftrong brown, approaching to chefnut ; a 
very elegant colour, and extreamly glofly : the long feathers having their origin from 
under the wings, and hanging over the tail, are of an elegant gold yellow toward the 
bafe, and of a variegated brown and yellow in the reft > thefe are about a foot long* 
and of an elegant ftrudure. 
The two long feathers have their origin among thefe; they are more than two feet 
in length, and are of a gold yellow toward the bafe, but they have more brown toward 
their extremities, and they are turned or curled at the ends. 
The legs are moderately long, robuft, and of a brown colour : the toes are long % 
they ftand, as in all the others of this kind, three before and one behind, and they 
are armed with long and fharp whitifh claws. 
We frequently meet with fpecimens of this in the collections of the curious. Marc- 
grave calls it Manucodiata Rex 5 and moft of the authors who have written flnce* 
have continued the fame name to it. Charleton calls it Paradifssorum Rex. 
Paradifcea capite nigro viridefcente , cotto flavo , dorfo aureo , cauda fufca . 
The greenijh) black-headed Paradifcea , with a yellow back , and a brown 
tail . 
This is a fmall fpecies, but it is one of the moft beautiful of the whole genus: the 
head is fmall, and is deprefled on the crown, and comprefled in fome degree at the 
fides: the whole bird is not bigger than our common fwallow, only the wings are 
much longer: the eyes are extreamly minute ; they hardly exceed a grain of millet in 
bignefs, and are coal black: the beak is three quarters of an inch long; it appears 
very large, in proportion to the head : the upper chap is longer than the under, and is 
fome what hooked ; the noftrils are of an oval figure and fmall. 
The 
