DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF EPIMACHUS, 

 FROM THE ASTROLABE RANGE, S. E. NEW GUINEA. 



By Dr. E. P. Ramsay, F.R.S.E., F.G.S., kc. 



EpIMACHUS MACLEAYANiE, Sp. nOV. 



Ad^dt J/a^e.— Total length, 3ft. 6 in. ; tail, 2ft. 7-3 ; wing, 7-2 j 

 tarsus, 2-2 ; bill from forehead, 3*2 ; from gape, 3-1 ; along the 

 curve of the culmen from the forehead, 3"3 ; height of bill at base, 

 03; width at gape, 0-6; at nostril, 04] the longest side chest 

 plumes, 4-7 by 2-1 in breadth at the tip ; flank plumes, 6-2 ; the 

 long decomposed flank plumes, 8"6 inches. The head, throat, back, 

 wings, rump, and all the upper surface velvety black, all except 

 the neck, wings and rump, with rich metallic glossy scale-like 

 feathers with steel-blue, green, and violet reflections ; rump and 

 upper tail-coverts velvety black with steel-blue tips to the feathers, 

 two centre tail feathers, long, narrow (3-5 in width), black, with 

 blue and purple reflections, the others black without any sheen or 

 gloss. The chest, breast, and all the under surface olive-brown, 

 with rosy mauve reflections, plumes on side of the chest, broadly 

 margined with steel-blue green and violet reflections, in shape 

 somewhat triangular, being greatly expanded at the tips, the lower 

 side-plumes shorter, margined and tipped with rose-mauve, puce 

 and violet reflections, the longer plumes nearest the flanks with 

 the outer webs only, mauve ; the loose and somewhat decomposed 

 elongated flank-plumes reaching to beyond the under tail-coverts, 

 light brown or of a pale fawn-brown tint, thighs black ; upper tail- 

 coverts and tail below, black; legs, feet, and bill black ; there is a 

 rich sheen of rosy-mauve over the whole of the under surface from 

 the lower part of the neck to the flanks, which shows a rose-lilac 

 tint in certain lights, and is slightly deeper in tint on the lower 

 side-plumes. 



