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Stomach contained small seeds. For curious loop in the windpipe see body. This bird 

 was shot on the island opposite Somerset by Moseley.] The colours of the soft parts and 

 contents of the stomach are the same in the other specimen. 



The two skins sent agree well with Mr Sharpe's description and differ from Mr 

 Elliot's figure of the New Guinea species (Manucodia keraudreni) in the points noticed 

 in Gray's original description of the species. The curious conformation of the trachea 

 in Manucodia keraudreni has long been known, having been originally described 

 by Lesson. Beccari (Ibis, 1876, p. 252) says he thinks it probable that this is a 

 peculiarity of the male sex. Mr Murray's notes, however, would seem to contradict 

 this view, unless, as is hardly likely, two species otherwise so nearly allied should differ 

 in this peculiarity. 



1 1 . PtilorMs albevti, Elliot 



Ptiloris albert), Ell., Proc. Zool. Soc., 1871, p. 583; id. Mon. Parail, pi. xxiv. ; Sharpe, Cat. 



of B., vol. iii. p. 156; Forbes, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1878, p. 123. 

 Ptiloris magnifiers, Gould, B. Austr. Supp., pi. li. 

 Craspedqphora magnified, id. Handb., vol. i. p. 595. 



Six skins of this Rifle- bird from Cape York, four of which are adult males in full 

 plumage, and one a female. Another, marked ? , is either a young male coming into full 

 plumage, or more probably an aged female assuming male plumage, as some of the 

 feathers on the top of the head show traces of a metallic blue colour, as also does the 

 shoulder, whilst more or fewer of the primaries on each side have acquired the black 

 colour characteristic of the male. Of Nos. 164 and 165 it is noted in Mr Murray's 

 journal: — "Males. Eyes, bill, and legs black ; soles of the feet yellow. The stomach 

 contained a red fruit, wuth a large stone about the size of a pea. Some parts of insects in 

 165." Of No. 184, "Female. Eyes black. Stomach contained ants and grubs." Besides 

 the specimens sent, several others seem to have been procured. An interesting account 

 of the shooting of these specimens will be found in Lord George Campbell's Log Letters 

 from the Challenger, p. 185. 



12. Mimeta viridis, Lath. 



Mimeta viridis, Gould, Handb. B. Austr., vol. i. p. 462; Forbes, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1878, 



p. 123. 

 Oriolus viridis, Gould, B. Austr., vol. iv., pL xiii. ; Sbarpe, Cat. of B., vol. iii. p. 212. 



A young male from Cape York, agreeing generally with Mr Sharpe's description (I.e.) 

 of the young bird. [No. 169, $ . Thrush.] 



