The Malay Archipelago, Volume 2 _ The Land - Alfred Russel Wallace

each other. It is about the same size as Paradisea papuana (13 to 14 inches long), but differs from it i ...

were more than usually ornamental. Variations of colour are of all others the most frequent and the ...

throat, and entire upper surface are of the richest glossy crimson red, shading to orange-crimson on the forehead, w ...

the back. The head is covered with short brown velvety feathers, which advance on the back so as to cover ...

equally plain in this sex, of which specimens have not yet been obtained. The Superb Bird of Paradise ...

bird receives its name. These are slender wires, six inches long, with a small oval web at the e ...

Paradisea apoda, and the more musical cry of Cicinnurus regius. The males at short intervals open and flutter t ...

the breast, and crossed throughout with narrow blackish wavy bands. The Seleucides alba is found in the ...

with the Superb and the Six-shafted Paradise Birds, and I was informed is sometimes foun ...

breasted Paradise Bird seems to be confined to the mainland of New Guinea, and is less rare than ...

Diphyllodes speciosa (The Magnificent). New Guinea, Mysol, Salwatty. Diphyllodes wilsoni (The Red Magnificent). W ...

Notwithstanding these precautions, Mr. Allen met with difficulties in this voyage which we had neithe ...

understand a word or communicate a want. However, by signs and presents and a pretty liberal barter, he ...

the common species of commerce, are now much more difficult to obtain than they were even twenty years ...

CHAPTER XXXIX. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE PAPUAN ISLANDS. NEW GUINEA, with the islands joined to it by a shallow s ...

these is a true kangaroo, very similar to some of middle-sized kangaroos of Australia, and it is ...

(Machaerirhynchus); and the elegant blue flycatcher-wrens (Todopsis). The naturalist will obtain a clearer ide ...

explanation of them, in those repeated elevations and depressions which have left their record in mysterious ...

zoological group from New Guinea, I have at the same time pointed out that its fauna was chiefly derived ...

and the beautiful weevils forming the genus Eupholus. Among butterflies we have the genera ...