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."
Zoodanig was het uiterlijk van dien uitstekend fraaien vogel, welken de inboorlingen dichterlijk "den vogel der zon" noemen.