obtained, I went with my men into the forest ; and we were not only rewarded with another

King bird was
a little of the habits of both it and the larger species.

in equally perfect plumage, but I was enabled to see
es of the less dense forests, and is very active, flying strongly with a whirring

It frequents the lower tre
It eats hard stone-bearing fruits as large

sound, and constantly hopping or flying from branch to branch.
as a gooseberry, and often flutters its wings after the manner of the South-American Manakins, at which

times it elevates and expands the beautiful fans with which its breast is adorned. The natives of Aru call
it ‘ Goby-goby.”

The figures in the Plate represent a pair of male birds from Aru, of the size of life, with a reduced figure
of the female. According to notes made by Dr. Bernstein from the living bird, the male in breeding-
plumage has the bill of a pale reddish yellow; feet clear cobalt blue; iris brownish yellow, tinged with
grey. The female has the bill brownish black, passing to clear greenish brown near the angle of the gape ;

the gullet yellowish green, rather blackish ; iris brownish grey; feet of a clear blue.

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