The new international encyclopaedia . - plumageand long tails of the males, the females having aplain brown dress. The name was given orig-inally by the Portuguese settlers to a species(Chera procne) whicli. excepting a bulT and scar-let wing-bar, is wholly black, the color and longtrain suggesting the garb of a widow. One ofthe most remarkable speciesis illustrated herewith. Itsbody is not larger than that. LONG-TAILED WIDOW-BIRD {ViiJua paradisea). of a small finch. The head,throat, back, and wings aregreenish brown, the nape andunder parts dark yellow,and the breast deep ,red. Thelong tail
The new international encyclopaedia . - plumageand long tails of the males, the females having aplain brown dress. The name was given orig-inally by the Portuguese settlers to a species(Chera procne) whicli. excepting a bulT and scar-let wing-bar, is wholly black, the color and longtrain suggesting the garb of a widow. One ofthe most remarkable speciesis illustrated herewith. Itsbody is not larger than that. LONG-TAILED WIDOW-BIRD {ViiJua paradisea). of a small finch. The head,throat, back, and wings aregreenish brown, the nape andunder parts dark yellow,and the breast deep ,red. Thelong tail is most middle pair of feathershave the webs greatly wid-ened, and through the twist-ing of the shafts their in-ferior surfaces are verticallyopposed; the next pair areproduced to the length ofabout a foot, and droo|) ina graceful curve; and eachhas attached to its base along hair-like filament. Thisand some other species areoften kept in Europe as cagebirds for the sake of their song as well as theirplumage. Erroneous spellings of this name arewhjdah-bird and vida-bird. •WTiDOWS TEARS, The. A coarse buthumorous comedy by Chapman (1612). Itssource is Petroniuss story of the Ephesian widow. WIECK, vek, Friedrich (1785-1873). A Ger-man musical instructor, born at Pretzsch, nearWittenberg. Having at first studied theology- atWittenberg, he turned to music, established apiano factory and nm
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