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LITTLE FOLKS 
Here is another, the King Bird of Paradise. He is a little 
fellow, about the size of a sparrow, but he is a great beauty. In 
color, the back is rich chest- 
nut, and the breast white with a 
band of golden green across. 
His oddest feature is the fan- 
shaped tuft of feathers which 
springs from each side, of a sort 
of gray color tipped with bright 
green, and which the pretty little 
fellow can spread out, or lay flat 
down as he likes. 
The two middle feathers of 
the tail are curious also ; they are 
very long, and like small wires 
for about five inches beyond the 
rest of the tail, and at the ends 
of each, a beautiful tip of bright 
green in a spiral form. 
This little beauty lives on low trees, and eats a hard fruit. 
The natives of the Malay Islands where it lives, call it by the 
graceful name of " Goby-goby." 
The last picture that I shall show you, is the Golden Bird of 
Paradise. Here it is. 
You see he's not a whit behind the rest of the family in beauty, 
and his six head ornaments make him very curious besides. His 
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