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an a few ents on one tree, after which ;

‘d. It seldom rests more than a few momen ae vhich it
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cling. et iftness, to another. It has a loud shrill cry, to be heard a long way,
Ss : Ee h creat swiitness, ; ae ae a : [
flies straight off, and with g ted five or six times in a descending scale ; and at the last note it senerally
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consisting of ‘cah, cah, repea i ee anabiis: although, perhaps, they assemble at certain times
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are quite solitary

flies away. The males ld imens shot and opened by my assistant Mr. Allen, who obtained
All the speci S é J

1 ea ea we © achs but a brown sweet liqy;

like the true Parac his last vovage to New Guinea, had nothing in their stomachs but a veet liquid,
is fi ir ring his last voyage

this fine bird during yag

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. sen feeding -y certainly, however, eat both fruit
of the flowers on which they had been feeding. The ainly, ; |
ca ecual 0100 hich I ilive on board a Dutch steamer, ate cockroaches and paya fruit
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and insects ; for a specimen, ious habit of resting at noon with the bill pointing vertically upwards,
: Ten aenarchorcurions tabi sting ah
re ain i 11 red the body and formed a skeleton, which shows indisputably
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s > passace atavia; and 1 secu ) ;
Hi aon aes a T rue is very long and extensible, but flat, and a little fibrous
that it is really a Bird of Paradise. The tongue is very g
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1:1, BP aradiaeas
ac > the true Paradiseas. a
at the end, exactly like : e the sleepine Sa
canna land of Salwatty the natives search in the forests till they find the sleeping-place : a bird,
n the isle alwatty Re ae joo
ich they know by seeing its dung upon the ground. It is generally in a low bushy od At night they
Po i il l t the birds with blunt arrows, or even catch them alive with a cloth. In
1 > tree, an r shoot the bir b
climb up the tree, and eithe ae : by then ae ng
New Guinea they are caught by placing snares on the trees frequented by them, in the same ay as the
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ise-bir re caug alg1ou.
Red Paradise-birds are caught in Waig 7 a
ion has the present species been known to have been brought alive to Europe, a single
Only on one occasion has the present species | ie by Se
example having been procured by Signor G. E. Serruti im New Guinea, and_presentec oy him to the late
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r 1 Ter Tae: O ant nt : { urope.
King of Italy. It survived, however, only a few months in Et ro} 7
e C a . ° Spee oe Geral en £ pe aon
I take the following descriptions from Mr. Sharpe’s ‘ Catalogue of Birds ’:— | i |
ety black, with a strong gloss of oil-ereen when viewed from the
Adult male. General colour above velvety black, with a strong gloss of oil-green a e
is I: 1 a
1 ions; scapulars < ving-coverts resembling the back; greater coverts
light, with coppery bronze reflections ; scapulars and wing-coverts resembling the back ; gre

and secondaries fiery purple, the primaries black, with an external gloss of violet ; oo fiery purple; head
all round of a velvety texture, coppery purple above, oily green on the sides of the face and throat ; fore
neck and chest velvety black, forming a shield, somewhat shaded with oily green in the centre, the lateral
plumes all tipped with bright metallic emerald-green, forming a fringe ; rest of the under ue of ey
buffy yellow, the plumes of the flanks elongated and silky, and furnished with six threadclike shafts,
produced to a great length, and curved backwards on the body; under wing-coverts black ; bill black,
Total length 12 inches, culmen 2:7, wing 6°45, tail 3°15, tarsus 1-75; threads reaching 10:2 inches
beyond the flank-feathers.

Adult female.—General colour above bright chestnut-red; back of the neck and sides of the same black;
the feathers of the mantle also mottled with black, the bases of the feathers being of this colour; crown
of head and nape velvety black, with a purplish gloss when seen away from the light; wing-coverts and
secondaries chestnut-red, like the back, the primaries blacl

‘, chestnut on their outer webs ; tail uniform
chestnut ; space around and behind the eye bare

» aS also a spot on the auricular region; ear-coverts
black; sides of face and throat greyish white, faintly mottled with dusky bars of blackish; rest of under
surface of body buffy brown, washed here and the
somewhat irregular cross lines of bl
indicated on the abdomen

re with pale rufous, the whole transversely barred with
ackish brown, broader on the fore neck and breast, and more faintly
, and especially on the long fl
coverts bright chestnut, with dusky blackish cross b
tail 4°3, tarsus 1-7,

Young male.—At first rese

ank-feathers and under tail-coverts ; under wing-
ars. Total length 12°5 inches, culmen 2°55, wing 6°9,

mbles the adult female.

» mantle, and breast, the re
still entirely chestnut.
on the wings by a gradual change of fe
but more or less mottled with bl

A specimen collected by Mr. Wallace is in perfect
st of the body being in the chestnut plumage of
At the same time the beautiful purple colour is being put
ather, and not by a moult; half the inner secondaries are chestnut,

ae oy | i he purple colour appearing very plainly on the inner webs.

A © represents the male bird, of the natural size; and | have thought it necessary to give a
second illustration of this species, in order to Show some of th n :
represents a female and a young male jn
commencing to put on his ad

plumage as regards ‘its head
the female, the tail being

e changes of plumage. The second Plate

te Its first plumage, together with another bird, of the same sex,
wit livery,

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