Now you will want to know why this Bird of Paradise is called both the Golden and the Six-shafted Bird of Paradise. Well, he is called the Golden Bird of Paradise because he has lovely golden feathers on his throat and breast, and he is called the Six-shafted Bird of Paradise because six little arrows--for that is what they look like--seem to have been shot into his head, three on each side--arrows, you know, are sometimes called shafts. These little shafts or arrows are six inches long--almost as long as the bird itself--and bend right back over his body, as far as to the tail. Of course each of them is really a feather--an arrow that is all feather--but it is a "funny feather" with only the quill, which is very thin and slender, till quite the end, where there is just a little oval piece of the soft web--the part that looks really like a feather--left upon it. That is what makes them look like arrows. But is it not curious that the "funny feathers" of _this_ Bird of Paradise are in his head instead of in his tail? I think it must be because Dame Nature wanted to make him a little different. Of course you will see at once that six feathers like that--to say nothing of his wonderful golden breast--make the Six-shafted (or Golden) Bird of Paradise quite as remarkable as the Black or the Blue, or any of the other, Birds of Paradise. Whether it makes him _more_ remarkable, that I really can't say. _You_ must make up your mind about that. The fact is, _all_ the Birds of Paradise are remarkable. I am sure if they were all together in one place, and you were to say out loud that any one of them was the _most_ remarkable, all the other ones would be very much offended.