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BIRDS OF PARADISE.
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much diversity as to be divided into several genera. Of these the genus Samalia, which contains the species best known, is thus characterized.
BIRDS OF PARADISE.
(Samalia apoda et Lophorina superba.)
The beak is robust, convex above, furnished at the base with velvet feathers, straight, compressed at the sides, and jagged towards the tip. The sides of the belly and the flanks are adorned with
