Two strands, made of a horn substance covered with down, rose over its tail, which was lengthened by long, very light feathers of wonderful fineness, and they completed the costume of this marvelous bird that the islanders have poetically named "the sun bird."
Deux filets cornés et duveteux s'élevaient au-dessus de sa queue, que prolongeaient de longues plumes très légères, d'une finesse admirable, et ils complétaient l'ensemble de ce merveilleux oiseau que les indigènes ont poétiquement appelé 1'« oiseau du soleil ».