"Here see o'er oriental seas bespread
infinite island-groups and alwhere strewed
* * * * * * *
here dwell the golden fowls, whose home is air,
and never earthward save in death may fare."
1645.—"... the male and female Manucodiatae, the male having a hollow in the back, in which 'tis reported the female both layes and hatches her eggs."—Evelyn's Diary, 4th Feb.
1674.—
"The strangest long-wing'd hawk that flies,
That like a Bird of Paradise,
Or herald's martlet, has no legs...."