Beautiful Birds

The last bird I am going to tell you about is the White Egret. But, do you know, I am not quite sure if he is beautiful enough to be put in a book of beautiful birds, because, o...

Now I have told you about two very beautiful Birds of Paradise, and in this chapter I shall tell you about some others; at least I shall try to tell you what they are like, beca...

One of the most beautiful birds in the whole world--more beautiful, even, than _some_ of the Birds of Paradise and than _some_ of the Humming-birds, even those that are not herm...

The Great Bird of Paradise lives in the middle of the great island called New Guinea, and all over some quite little islands close to it which are called the Aru Islands. He is...

One of the most beautiful of all the Humming-birds (but we can say that of so many) is the Rainbow Humming-bird. It is very large for a Humming-bird, so what _will_ you think wh...

What beautiful things birds are! Can you think of any other creatures that are quite so beautiful? I know you will say "Butterflies," and perhaps it _is_ a race between the bird...

Perhaps, when I was telling you about the Birds of Paradise and how very, very beautiful they are, you thought they were the most beautiful birds in the whole world. They are ne...

As I have told you, there are some forty or fifty different kinds of Birds of Paradise, and they are all of them as beautiful, or nearly as beautiful, as those that I have descr...

First I will tell you about the Birds of Paradise. You have heard of them perhaps, and how beautiful they are, but you may have thought that birds with a name like that did not...

Well, I have told you about the Humming-birds and the Birds of Paradise, which are the _most_ beautiful birds that there are in the world. Now I will tell you about just a few o...

I told you that as soon as the sun's light fell upon the earth all the sunbeams that had been asleep there woke up, and were changed into Humming-birds. But there was just one s...

Then there is another very beautiful Bird of Paradise which is called the Red Bird of Paradise. It is no use trying to find out whether he or the one I have just been telling yo...