€0: THE NATURAL HISTORY 
head and throat; its tail is very fhort, and the 
wings reach beyond it ; but from the upper part 
of the tail there are two {tems of feathers about 
fix inches long, naked, except towards the end, 
where they have webs on one fide, and cur! round, 
Its head and back are red; under each wing it 
has a remarkable tuft of feven or eight feathers 
tipt with green ; and on its breaft there is a cref. 
cent of feathers of a dark glofiy green. 
Birds of. Paradife are fo extremely light,. from 
the great quantity of their feathers, that their 
flight is liable to be affected by.the winds ;, on this 
account, perhaps, they chufe for their abode thofe 
countries in which high winds are not frequent. 
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GENUS 15: TR OG O N. 
Tue CURUCUI, or COUROUCOU, 
The beak is fhorter. than the head, comprefled, hooked, 
and onthe margin, or edge, a. little waved, furrounded at, 
the bafe with fringe-like feathers. 
The toes placed two before and two behind, for ‘climbing, 
“The legs are fhort and’ weak, and covered with feathers. 
_ er down. 
"SHE Y are found in South America. One. 
of this kind has a yellow bill, furrounded 
with {iff black feathers that point. forward ;. they 
have 
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