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[Exhibited under heading: "Water-Colors." See entry 02560053 for related commentary.] Ninth Annual Report of the Saint Louis Agricultural and Mechanical Association. Prepared for Publication by Maj.

The always colorful males light up with biofluorescence, sending off signals. A male Paradisaea rubra, or red bird-of-paradise.Credit...Rene Martin/American Museum of Natural History Supported by By ...

The mating dance of the male superb bird of paradise is like nothing else on Earth. To win the affection of a female, he forms a sort of satellite dish with his body, revealing an entrancing band of ...