THE LIVING WORLD. 
being the tail. It is a plump bird, corresponding in size to a dove, and has a 
bold expression like that of a bantam cock. On the crown is a double crest 
of deep green and of a velvety softness. The head, neck and back feathers 
are of a beautiful golden yellow, tinged with carmine on the edges. The 
wings and chest are of a warm chocolate brown, in most pleasing contrast 
with the other ornamentations. The tail is composed of filamentous feathers 
of a beautiful carmine color, while from either side, at the root of the tail 
proper, are two filose, or thread-like processes, that curve most gracefully theii 
length of quite two feet. 
The Spotted Bower Bird (Chlamydera maculata) has also been classed 
among the birds of Paradise, and properly so, because of its beautiful plumage ; but 
I have preferred to describe it among the singular nest-building species on page 359. 
ARBOR OR THE SPOTTED BOWER BIRD. 
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head, imparting a strange umbrella-like appearance, the grotesqueness of which 
is much increased by a corresponding forked tuft of feathers springing out from 
the throat. The general color of this bird is a very deep violet shot with green, 
which is very reflective of the sun’s rays, being almost prismatic in its bright 
refulgence. . 
Red Bird of Paradise (P. rubra). This bird is never found on the main¬ 
land of New Guinea, though pretty common on the smaller islands in close 
proximity. Its plume is hardly so rich as that of the preceding species, 
but it possesses, nevertheless, much beauty, the chief point of ornamentation 
