. Natural history of birds, fish, insects, and reptiles . FIG. i5. Bird ria. liG. Kinx/ JUtcL vfParaduft. OF BIRDS, FISH, &•. <277 THE BIRD OF PARADISE*, OF all the various animals which travellershave mentioned and naturalists have described,the Bird of Paradise has given rise to the great-est number of opinions and assertions, and con-sequently the most various and has been seriously insisted on by some thatthev were inhabitants of the air, never liachtina: J -DO on the ground, and that they subsisted entirelyupon the dew of heaven; nay, Navarett, inhis his
. Natural history of birds, fish, insects, and reptiles . FIG. i5. Bird ria. liG. Kinx/ JUtcL vfParaduft. OF BIRDS, FISH, &•. <277 THE BIRD OF PARADISE*, OF all the various animals which travellershave mentioned and naturalists have described,the Bird of Paradise has given rise to the great-est number of opinions and assertions, and con-sequently the most various and has been seriously insisted on by some thatthev were inhabitants of the air, never liachtina: J -DO on the ground, and that they subsisted entirelyupon the dew of heaven; nay, Navarett, inhis history of China, carries it so far as to add,that he was induced from this circumstance toenquire how these birds contrived to hatch theireggs, and was told by the natives, that the henslaid them upon the backs of the cocks, andthere hatched them; and this tale, in spite ofits ridiculous absurdity, had his belief, consi-dering it, as he well might, as a kind of mira- * This bird, says BufFon, is more remarkable for thefalse and imaginary qualities tliat have been attributed toi
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