. The bird, its form and function . the Bearded Vulture has a simi-lar goatee of stiff, black bristles. Of the wonderful crests, frills, ruffs, breastplates, andcloaks of hummingbirds there is no room to speak, andindeed no words or pictures can aught but parody eye alone can record their marvels, in the collectionof a museum, or, better still, in the living birds, as thelittle creatures hover over their favourite flowers, orvibrate before us, fanning the air in our very faces withtheir invisible wings. Brief mention should be made of two Birds of Para-dise, those beautiful creatures
. The bird, its form and function . the Bearded Vulture has a simi-lar goatee of stiff, black bristles. Of the wonderful crests, frills, ruffs, breastplates, andcloaks of hummingbirds there is no room to speak, andindeed no words or pictures can aught but parody eye alone can record their marvels, in the collectionof a museum, or, better still, in the living birds, as thelittle creatures hover over their favourite flowers, orvibrate before us, fanning the air in our very faces withtheir invisible wings. Brief mention should be made of two Birds of Para-dise, those beautiful creatures inhabiting a region wherethe eye of man seldom sees them. The Six-shafted Bird of Paradise is found only inNew Guinea. The plumage appears at first sight black,but it glows in certain lights with bronze and deep pur-ple. The throat and breast are scaled with broad, flatfeathers of an intense golden hue, changing to green andblue tints and certain lights. On the back of the headis a broad recurved band of feathers, whose brilliancv. Fig. 209.—Head of Eared Pheasant.
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