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Tue BIRD OF PARADISE: 
The beak at its -bafe, and the throat, are dived with 
foft feathers like velvet. | | 
‘The feathers on the fides, which grow under the wings, 
are very long. 
The two upper tail feathers naked fe difing. 
Legs and feet very BrOUs 3 eee toes ave and one: 
GEG. | 2 
‘HE e greater Bird of Doadd fas iS: very benign. : 
_ ful; the tail, the breaft and ftomach are of 
_ abrown or chefnut colour; the throat is covered 
_ with green foft feathers like velvet ; the feathers : 
___ of the breaft are of a dark blueifh purple. - “They 2S, 
> fag flocks, and are brought from the Molucca - 
Tflands, The ;people there, when they catch 
thefe birds to fend them to Europe, generally cut. 
off their legs. This has made many who, never. — 
law them alive, imagine that they have no legs. | 
Birds of Paradife feed much upon Butterflies ; 
like Swallows, they are almoft always flying. © 
The King Bird.of Paradife lives in pace 
Iflands,in,Afia. |The bill is-yellow, the upper 
‘mandible covered hal f way over with ores, COs; 
loured velvet-like feathers, and fo is part of the - 
CG: head 
