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color is a beautiful velvety black, with throat and breast of rich 
gold color. He has also his fan-like plumes on the side, something 
like the King Bird. But the six long wire-like feathers, with their 
bits of feathers at the end, are not known to exist on anv other 
bird. They can be lifted up, as in the picture, or drooped over 
his back, as he likes. Very little is known about his habi 
There are several other kinds of Birds of Paradise, perhaps 
as strange and beautiful as these. 
