Ebook: Drawn From Paradise: The Discovery, Art and Natural History of the Birds of Paradise

The first of the family : genus Paradisaea -- The twelve-wired bird : genus Seleucidis -- The king and his cousins : genus Cicinnurus -- The head-plumed dancers : genus Parotia -- The superb bird : genus Lophorina -- The sicklebills : genus Epimachus and genus Drepanornis -- The highlanders : genus Astrapia -- The riflebirds : genus Ptiloris -- The final glories : genus Semioptera and genus Pteridophora with genus Astrapia -- The meaning of the dances -- Hybrids -- Appendix. People associated with the discovery and visual representation of birds of paradise.;From the moment they were introduced to the European mind in the early sixteenth century, their unique beauty was recognised and commemorated in the first name that they were given -- birds so beautiful they must be birds from paradise.