The Paradise Riflebird (male and female) drawn by Ebenezer Gostelow in 1937. It is difficult to do justice to the electric blues, greens and purples of the male bird’s plumage. In real life, even the black feathers seem to shimmer with these colours. Photo: NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA
MANY of the articles in early newspapers told tales of the magnificence of the p...
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