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This sjiecies is at once distinguishable from C. magnltica of North-Western 

 New Guinea by the base of the culmen being entirely hidden by the frontal feathers, 

 which unite on each side, as proi)erly remarked by Sharpe in his new Monograph of 

 the Paradiaeidae. The bill is also a little shorter, the breast-shield of a less metallic 

 gloss, but these differences are trifling. Birds from German New Guinea (Con- 

 stantinhafen, Simbang, and the Finisterre Mountains) are entirely similar to those 

 from British New Guinea. \V. R. 



Drepanornis albertisii cervinicauda Sd., P. Z. B. 1883, \\. 578. 



Tvio fc nudes shot on July 19th and iilst, 1895, near Orangery Bay, and a good 

 series of both sexes from the Eafa district. The ivis is given as brown, feet grey, 

 bill black. Dr. Sclater most appropriately called this bird, when he first named it, 

 a subspecies, and bestowed upon it a trinomial. As such it must stand, the only 

 obvious differences between the 7)ude of it and the Arfak -bird being the lighter 

 rump and tail ; and the colour of the latter is by no means absolutely constant, 

 neither in the darker nor in the paler species, though the former is always recog- 

 nisable. The differences stated to exist in the colour of the crown and on the tips of 

 the side-plumes are minute, and not (juite constant in a large series. A constant 

 difference in the length and thickness of the bill seems not to exist. The fenude of 

 the Arfak bird is darker and more rufous above. All this seems not to indicate more 

 than a well-marked subspecies. W. R. 



Epimachus meyeri Finsch. 

 Both sexes from the Eafa and Victoria districts. 



Astrarchia stephaniae Finsch. 



Both sexes of this magnificent fiird from the Eafa and Victoria districts. The 

 /emaies do not differ in structure from those of Astrapia nigra, but only in 

 colour. The genus, therefore, is hardly of much value. W. I>. 



Paradisornis rudolphi Finsch & Meyer. 



Both sexes of this glorious bird from the Eafa district and .Alount ^■ictoria. lu 

 October mcdes were in full plumage, while others had their long tail-feathers not 

 developed and a female was in full moult. ^\ . R. 



Paradisea raggiana Sil., /'. Z. S. 1873, [ii>. 5.59, ()97. 



A fine series of adult nudes from the ^lailu district, all very constant in colour, 

 except that in two specimens the straw-yellow colour of the Iiind-neck extends nuicii 

 less down towards the back than usual. All are in full nuptial ijlumage, except one 

 which has only short side-plumes and one which has none at all. The wing is mostly 

 about 185 mm. long, the shortest being 183 and 181 mm. long, while a few have 

 longer wings, i.e. 187, 19l), and one even 194. W. R. 



Cicinnurus regius (Linn.). 



A large series of nudes smd feiiudes from Mailu. Female : " Eye brown, feet pale 

 blue, beak yellow." 



I have now before me in the Tring Museum many specimens of Cicinnurus 

 regius, about thirty of them with e.xact localities, from Mailu and Nicura in 



