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170 J 22 FABLED STORIES FROM THE ZOO.
party either, for I noticed several little green
ones hopping about for very ecstasy in their
joy of life. And to the social gathering came
other birds of gorgeous plumage, meet partners
for a ball in high feather and in a tropic
clime. There danced the beautiful bird called
the Sophocomet, the ridiculous-looking
Rhinoceros Hornbill, whose very name tells what
he must be like. There were dashing
Kingfishers, whom we also see in England, like
joyous thoughts flashing along the banks of
our rivulets; and there flirted the Ruby and
Topaz humming-birds, glittering in the
twilight like gems that had become alive ; and
there fluttered the Great Emerald, spreading its
soft and downy wings like a cascade of
sparkling green water; and several differently attired
Birds of Paradise, but all gorgeous, as their
name indicates, and supremely so the Superb
one, attired in a long hood of scale-like feathers,
looking as if he came dressed in armour, like
an ancient knight. But none seemed in
higher feather than the host himself, a black
satin bower-bird; for he ruffled and bristled
and bowed and scraped like an ancient cavalier
dancing a minuet, or a French dancing master.
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