PARADISE FLY-CATCHER, Tchitrea pars disi, Linn., shah bulbul or rocket-bird, though not common, its singularly attractive plumage can scarcely escape observation. The adult male has a blue head, white body, with two of the feathers prolonged for upwards of 8 inches beyond the tip ; these, in the female, scarcely extend beyond a quarter of an inch. The young birds are Chesnut. Several birds are named of paradise.
The Bhim-raj or Indian mocking-bird, a species of Drongo or king crow (Edolius paradiseus); the male of the former having its two middle tail-feathers much elongated, and the other having its outer most tail-feathers prolonged into wire-like lams, barbed and twirled at the extremity. In like manner, the Vidua paradisea is a finch-like bird of the famous Queaelt of the ancient Mexicans is the Trogon or Calurus parsulisewl; and the Stanley crane, which has elongated tertiaries sweeping down to the ground, is the Grua paradises of Tewminck.
PARADOXURErS, a genus of mammals of the sub-family Viverrinx.
Paradoxurus bondar, Gray, Tend tree-cat. P. hirsatus, Hodgson. I I'. Pennantli, Gray.
Baum, Bondar, . . Machabba, . . :[PAL. Chiughar, . . . . HIND. 1 Malw*, .
Tho Terai, Bengal, and Behar.
Paradoxurus derbyanus, Gray, Malayan*.
Paradoxurus Grayi, Bennett, hill tree-cal, is the P. Nepalcusis, Hodgson, and P. bondar, Temm.
Paradoxurus fasciatus, a civet cat of Nepal, S.E. Himalaya, Arakan, N. Burma, over much of
the Archipelago.
Paradoxurus leucomystax, Gray, Nfalayana. Paradoxurus musanga, palm-cat.
P. typus, F. Cuv. P. prehensilus, Gray.
P. Pallasii, Gray. Viverra hermaphrodita, P. Crossii, Gray. Pallas.
P. dubius, Gray. P. strictus, Hodgs.
P. musangoides, Gray. P. quadriscriptus, Hags.
Bondar, : . . BENG. Thar•ka-kuta, . HIND. Kara-bek,. . '. . CA-Nr. Ud, . . . . . MAIIII. Menuri, Lakat, . HIND. Maram-pilli, . 3Liteat. Khatas, . . . . „ Manu-pill!, . . . TEL.
Common and abundant throughout the greater part of British India; lurks by day among the fronds of the cocoanut palms, rolled up as a ball. It will live for months iu confinement on vege table food, but preferring flesh. It is said to consume the toddy of the palmyra.
Paradoxurus trivirgatus, Temm., Ceylon, Malay Peninsula and Islands.
Paradoxurus Tytleri, Blyth, Andamans.
Paradoxurus Zeylanicus, Pallas. This species peculiar to Ceylon. It has a dark variety formerly termed by Dr. Kelaart P. montanus, but now described as P. Zeylanicus, var. Fuscus, beetle brown throughout ; no streaks on the back perceptible ; fur very glossy ; tail with a bright golden-yellow subterminal ring. It comes from Newera Elia.—Tennant's Ceylon; Jerdon's Main.