about two o'clock
But the shades of colour were beautiful , having a yellow beak , brown feet and claws , nut-coloured wings with purple tips , pale yellow at the back of the neck and head , and emerald colour at the throat , chestnut on the breast and belly . Two horned , downy nets rose from below the tail , that prolonged the long light feathers of admirable fineness , and they completed the whole of this marvellous bird , that the natives have poetically named the `` bird of the sun . '' But if my wishes were satisfied by the possession of the bird of paradise , the Canadian 's were not yet . Happily , about two o'clock , Ned Land brought down a magnificent hog ; from the brood of those the natives call `` bari-outang . '' The animal came in time for us to procure real quadruped meat , and he was well received . Ned Land was very proud of his shot . The hog , hit by the electric ball , fell stone dead .