Their scales were raised at an angle far more than usual, giving their hides a pineappley look.

He lacked the art of wounding with the sword, and in any case his critics charged that he shrank from steel; but his invective was worthy of Demosthenes and his words drew blood.

With each lap of its tongue a cat gathers up milk and throws it well back into the gateway of its throat […]

The species is S[chlegelia] wilsoni, better known as Paradisea or Diphyllodes wilsoni, of Waigiou and Batanta. The male is 7¼ inches long, the tail 2, with its middle pair of feathers as long again, twice crossed and then curled in arietiform figure.