PARADISEID.r,, 

 FiiT. 12. 



17 



Plantar surface of foot of Paradisea apoda, to show the proportions of the 

 toes. (From a specimen in the Natural-History Museum, by per- 

 mission of Dr. Giinther, F.R.S.) 



Subfamily E p i m a c h i n ^. 



Genus PTILORHIS. 



Swainson, Zool. Journ. i. p. 481 (1825) 



Ptilorhis paradisea. 



Ptihrhis 2^aradisea, Swainson, loc. cit.; Sharpe, Cat. B. iii. p. ]o4 



(1S77). 



The Common PwIFLe-bird. 



Hab. Australia : Wide-Bay district to New South Wales. 



67a. Natural skeleton of female*. From Lismore, N.S.W. 



Purchased from Mr. A. P. Goodicin. 



67. Sternum of male, with shoulder-girdle. Clarence River, 

 N. S. Wales {E. P. Ramsay). S. S. 1050. 



Presented bij P. L. Sclater, Esq., F.R.S. 



* Professor Stewart has carefully dissected the head of this specimen and 

 finds the siphonium well ossified. 



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