Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1882 — The Bird of Paradise. [ARTICLE]

The Bird of Paradise.

The twelve-wired bird of paradise in its adult male plumage presents a very remarkable appearance. The head, neck and throat are velvety black, changing in certain lights to a beautiful purple. The breast feathers are edged with metallic emerald green. The back is olive"gFS9ir* K the primaries and secondaries rich purple, the flank and under tail cpverts buff. The peculiarity which Suggested a name for the bird is a curious prolongation of the shafts of the flank feathers—six on each side, like long wires. The female does not possess these, and is altogether much plainer in plumage. Mr. Wallace has described it as frequenting flowering trees, especially sago-palms and pandani, sucking the flowers, round and beneath which its unusually large and powerful feet enable it to cling. Its motions are very rapid. It seldom rests more than a few moments on one tree, after which it flies offj and with great swiftness, to "another, It has a loud, shrill cry, which can be heard a long way, consisting of t‘Oah, cah,” repeated five or six times itfa descending scale, and at the last npte it generally flies away. The males are- solitary in their habits, although Jterhaps they assemble at times, like the birds. The value of all farms in the United States is estimated at $10,196,890,645 ; vslUeof farm implements at $456,516,902 ; live stock, $1,500,487,189 ; fertilizer* purchased and used in 1879, $27,598,859; fences, cost of building and repwring in 1879, $77,765,723.

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