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Identifier: foreignbirdsforc02butl (find matches)
Title: Foreign birds for cage and aviary
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Butler, Arthur Gardiner, 1844-1925
Subjects: Cage birds
Publisher: London, "The Feathered world"
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ffee-brown; mantle and scapulars dullhuffish ; reddish at base of feathers; least wing-covertswashed with buff; median and greater covens tippedwith bright buff; two central tail-feathers terminatingin long, thread-like shafts ; crown, back, and sides ofneck, the latter tending towards lower throat, brightvelvety buff ; a frontal band, lores, cheeks, and throatvelvety glossy green: forehead, chin, and a spot atbase of lower mandible blackish ; under-surface fromthroat backwards rich coffee-ibrown ; two large bunchesof graceful elongated plumes from the flanks, theirbasal half bright yellow and their terminal h.a.If white ;also a few stiff blood-red plumes; under wing-covertsand inner lining of quills coffeenbrown. like the body ;bill leaden-grey; feet black. Female coffee-brown;hind neck and mantle dull buff, wing-coverts washedwith the same; metallic green of forehead and throatwanting, as also the flank plumes; under surface ofbodv from throat ibackwards silky white ; sides, flanl^.
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The King Bird of Paradise. 60 FOREIGN BIRDS FOR CAGE AND AVIARY. and thiffhs washed with ooffee-hrown, as well as theouter edge of under wing-coverts. Halb., New G-uinea.and neighbouring islands. Russ says thai., according to Roseniberg, this species,like a.ll members of it^i famiily. is a migratory bird,eometimes occurring on the coast and sometimes in theinterior of the coimti-y following the ripening of certaintree-fruits. He then quotes Wallace as follows:— That was just the caso during my residence at Doreywith the fruits of a Lar.rinea wliioh grew upon thesunnnit of a hill about 156 ft. high beliind the villages.The birds, chiefly females and young males, came flyingwith vigorous flapping of wings to these trees ; and wereso little nervous, that they even returned after theyhad been shot at eeveral times. Othea-wise this birdIS unifonnly timid and difficult to get- a shot at,particularly the old males. Their ciy soimds hoarse,can bo heard from a long distance, and may be bestr

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