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CH AP.
CXXXIX.
PLA. 349
7Ve Tit-moufe of Paradife, &c.
T   HE figures engraved on this plate are
both drawn from nature, of the fize
of life.
The bill of the Bird is made like thofe
-of Tit-mice, and is of a black or dufky
colour: round the bafis of the upper man-
dible the feathers are black.  The top
and fides of the head are covered with
yellowish green feathers, in which fpace
the eyes are placed. The hinder part of
the head and neck, the beginning of the
back, the tail, and the quill-feathers, with
the row of coverts immediately above
them, are all of a deep velvety black: the
edges of a few of the outer quills are of
a fine blue, as are the leffer coverts, with
a line of black acrofs them. The infides
of the wings are dufky, the coverts being
edged with blue green. The tail hath
twelve feathers, of a duller black beneath
than above. The lower part of the back
and rump is covered with feathers of an
exceeding fine bright reddifh orange-colour,
inclining more to yellow on the upper
coverts of the tail. The throat and breaft
are of a fine dark ultramarine blue: the
belly and thighs gradually change to a fine
bluith fea-green. The feathers in the
middle of the belly, about the vent, and
ends of the coverts beneath the tail, are
tinged with dufky or black.  The legs
and feet are dufky. The colours in this
Bird, as well as in many others in this
work, are fo exceedingly bright, that my
whole catalogue of colours, joined to my
La Mefange du Paradis, &c.
TE S figures grave'es fur cette planche
L    ont iet' toutes deux die4ynces d'apres la
nature, et font de la meme gro./jfur que les
fujets.
Le bec de l' fteau eiifait comme ceux des
Mefanges communes, et ii eji d'une colecur
noire ou fombre: les plumes autour de la
bafe de la mandibule fuperieure font 7i-ires.
Le fommet et les cotes de la tete font cou-
vcrts de plumes d'un vert tirant fur le
jaune, et parmi ces plumes font place's le;
yeux. Le derriere de la tete et du cou, le
commencement du dos, la queiie, les pennes,
et les couvertures rangees immediatement az-
defus d'elles, font tous d'un noir fince,
comme /e velours noir: un petit nombre des
plumes exterieures ont leurs bords d'un -bea
ble/, et les petites couvertgresfont aulli de
cette couleur, mais elles font traverso'es par
une ligne noire. Le dedans des a//es e17
Jombre, et les bords de leurs couvertures
font d'un   verd tirant fur le bleu.     La
queue a douze plumes, d'un noir plus fomire
par de./hus que par defus.   Le bas di dos,
et le croup/on, font couverts de plumes
d'zone tres belle et eclatante cquIeur d'orairge
rougeatre, mais far A's cott.zerf'ures /2pe-
rieures de la quea/e cett/ cou/cur t1;r2t plus
di jaune que du rouge.     La gorge et /,
p/itrine Jont d'un   beau   leud   t; trIe
fince'; ce ble/e/c   clange gra,,/e "le'ment 'cn
un vert de mer bleuatre Jfr le q'en/re Ce
fur les cu/i7es.  Les plumes au nz/illeU '/o
ventre, et ce//s quiJfnt aut/zur deo /Jo,',-
ment, et /es bouts des couvertw-es au e6Iß/>vs
de 'lz qwueie, ont dies ticnt nads oui / fmivires.
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