. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Birds; Natural history; Oiseaux; Sciences naturelles. 422 THE EMERALD BIRD OF The gonoia colour of Iâs species is doop velvety-black, clmnf' into trrnv nen TlloH ''i '"'''⢠T"^ '"'" *'"^ ''t''^ fiolden-Kroen on t4 Imck offi "^"'V., Tl e throat us most Rorrreous in the sunshine, bein<; coveriHl with scale-like fen 1. of ghtterm. green ed,.. with gold. The feathers of the tail arTlo velvet like t? The Emerald Bird of I'aradise is the species which is most penerally known
. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Birds; Natural history; Oiseaux; Sciences naturelles. 422 THE EMERALD BIRD OF The gonoia colour of Iâs species is doop velvety-black, clmnf' into trrnv nen TlloH ''i '"'''⢠T"^ '"'" *'"^ ''t''^ fiolden-Kroen on t4 Imck offi "^"'V., Tl e throat us most Rorrreous in the sunshine, bein<; coveriHl with scale-like fen 1. of ghtterm. green ed,.. with gold. The feathers of the tail arTlo velvet like t? The Emerald Bird of I'aradise is the species which is most penerally known i« the one of winch were re ated the absurd tales which have already been m-t^med The jpecihc tenn, ^y.^a, s.^rnities "footless," and was given to the bird l,y n dlusi to those fables which were then current, but which he did not believe " . ^'''-^/rf.,"V''^ ^""^ '' " "â¢"'''â¢^ "^" N*^^^ ^'""'f^'^. wh.'re it is far from nnconnnon nn^ IS annual y killed in great numbers for the sake of its plumace which nlwnvs r-^r' ^ a high pr,ce in the market. It is a yeiy retiring bird. JlncSg il" tZ eS i! the thick tuhago of the teak-tree, and only coming from the green shelter at the Zi!7 setting of the sun, for the purpose of obtaining food. Alnio':.t tl e only sticVel'f u^nJt^ of shooting the iMuerald I'aradise Bird is to visit a teak or fiii tree before dnunli-n' position under the branches, and there wait patiently until on'e of ?lnl^is S mie tse';;,l' upon the branches, or Icm-es the spot which has sheltered it during the niJtThi^Sd IS rather tenacious of life, unless killed instantly is sure to make its escano ami 1 1 dense brushwood that grows luxuriantly beneath tlu/trees, and if the sportsman w . to chase a wounded bml amid the bushes, he would, in a 1 pmbab lity TosX v^^^^ perish ot hunger. Those ,s])ortsmen. therefore, who dcsiri to si ofthfs nil ' provide themselves with guns that wil
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