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BLUE GREEN
P. B.
Description.
Peäcb.
mentioned birds may be mere fexual differences of that defcribed
by Sonnerat.
Thefe birds inhabit New Guinea,
Lç Càlybé de la Nouvelle Gainée, Suf. oif. iiï. p. 173.—PI. enl. 634,
L ’Oifeau de Paradis verd, Sun. Soy. p. 164.. pl. 99.
T ENGTH fixteen inches. The bill is flout and thick, and rather
bent at the end ;. the colour black : the feathers of the
head are of a velvety texture, and come very forward on the
upper mandible 4 the plumage in general is of a fine blue, changing
into green in different lights, or fea-green : the back,, belly,
rump, and tail,, are fteel blue, and very glofiyv
This fieems to be the fame with one in Sir Jofeph Banks’s col-
fettion. The bill in that bird was an inch and a quarter long:
the tongue even at the end,, and furnifhed with briftles- : the tail
cuneiform ; the two middle feathers feven inches long ; the outer
ones three inches and. three quarters :. the whole plumage of the
head and body feemed frofted, each feather being abfolucely
curled at the edges: the head and neck appeared to have the
mod refledtion of green, and the body molt inclined to purple ;
rite wings were wholLy wanting.
The bird above defcribed came from New. Guinea..
This can be no other bird than that of Sonnerat above quoted,,
which he fays is a trifle bigger and longer than the King Paradife
Bird. The bill black : irides red : the bird is wholly, of a fine
green colour, which has the glofs of polijhed fleet: the feathers of,
the head, neck, and body, are fhrall, and ranged one over another
like the Jcales o f a fijh, and appear in different lights to be blue
and green alternate: the legs blackifh.
Oriolus attreus, Lin. Syf. i. p. 163. N° 19.
Le Troupial« deslndes, Brif. orn. app. p. 37. N° 31*
Le Rollier de Paradis, Buf. oif. iii. p. 149*
Golden Bird of Paradife, Exl<w. pl. iiz»
Lt*v. Muf.
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GOLDEN
P. B.
T ENGTH eight inches. Bill an inch long, father bent, and of
a brown Colour, darkeft at the tip : the throat, and fore part
o f the neck, for an inch and a quarter, are covered with black velvety
feathers: the head, neck, and body, of a fine orange gold-
colour ; beneath yellow: the edge of the wings and the tail are
black j the laft has yellow fhafts, and is fringed with yellow
near the tip : the legs were wanting, as well as the quills, in
Edwards’s fpecimen, from which he figured his bird ; but in the
Leverian Mufernn there is a perfedt one, in which I find the quills
and tail to be black ; in other things like that of Edwards.
D escription*
Suppofed to inhabit the fame places as the former ones. Place.
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