| A white heron, with bird-of-paradise feathers on its back, was occasionally seen, but only one specimen procured. |
| I suspect that the sweetheart of one of our Filipino cabin-boys is now wearing a hat fairly smothered in bird-of-paradise plumes. |
| He might as soon have expected a bird-of-paradise to live by choice in a coal-bunker. |
| The beautiful bird-of-paradise flower, the Strelitzia reginae, also adds a summer touch of paradise to the Welsh gardens. |
| To visit Makassar without buying bird-of-paradise plumes, she said, would be like visiting Japan without buying a kimono. |
| Andy Warhol was lunching poolside, amid the palm trees and exotic bird-of-paradise flowers. |
