THREE-FOOT PLUME FOR 9INCH BIRD
A "new" bird of paradise which, in proportion to its size, has the longest tail of any known wild bird, has been found in the Mount Hagen district of the Australian mandated territory of New Guinea. The bird's body is only about nine inches long; but its tail, consisting chiefly of two white plumes, is nearly three feet long.: It makes a clicking or hammering, noise, very much like that of a riveting machine at \vork. British and American, collectors have spent very large sums of money during the last few years in a vain search for new species of birds of paradise. The bird, was found by patrol officers of the New Guinea administration. A specimen received at the Australian Museum, Sydney, has been named "McNicoll's ribbon-tailed bird of paradise," after the Administrator of New Guinea, Sir Walter McNicoll.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 134, 11 March 1940, Page 7
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145THREE-FOOT PLUME FOR 9- INCH BIRD Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 134, 11 March 1940, Page 7
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