. Encyclopedia of natural and artificial wonders and curiosities including a full and authentic description of remarkable and astonishing places, beings, animals, customs, experiments, phenomena, etc., of both ancient and modern times, in all parts of the globe : comprising correct accounts of the most wonderful freaks of nature and arts of man . ese, Chinese, and Persians, import them forthe same purpose. The rich and great among the latter attachthese brilliant collections of plumage, not only to their ownturbans, but to the housings and harnesses of their are found only within a
. Encyclopedia of natural and artificial wonders and curiosities including a full and authentic description of remarkable and astonishing places, beings, animals, customs, experiments, phenomena, etc., of both ancient and modern times, in all parts of the globe : comprising correct accounts of the most wonderful freaks of nature and arts of man . ese, Chinese, and Persians, import them forthe same purpose. The rich and great among the latter attachthese brilliant collections of plumage, not only to their ownturbans, but to the housings and harnesses of their are found only within a few degrees of the enumerates twelve species, and Latham eight. P. apo-da, or the greater Paradise bird, is about as large as a pass in companies of thirty or forty together, headedby one whose flight is higher than that of the rest. They areoften distressed by means of their long feathers, in suddenshiftings of the wind, and unable to proceed in their flight;are easily taken by the natives, who catch them with bird-lime, and shoot them with blunted arrows. They are sold atAroo for an iron nail each, and at Banda for half a food is not ascertained, and they cannot be kept alivein confinement. The smaller bir5 of Paradise is supposed, byLatham, to be a mere variety of the above. It is found only.
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