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certain lights, but with a slight purplish tinge in others ; the 

 remainder of the head, neck, back, mantle, rump, upper tail-and- 

 wing-co verts light glistening orange-yellow tinged with pale 

 chrome-yellow on the head, lightest and brightest on the rump 

 and upper tail-coverts. Tail and wings brown, the outer margins 

 of the secondaries and of the greater series of the coverts washed 

 with yellow like the back ; shafts of the quills reddish brown ; 

 margins on the under surface and the greater series of the under 

 coverts and adjacent feathers rich pinkish cinnamon brown. The 

 feathers of the chest pinkish cinnamon colour at the base, bluish 

 ashy grey on the surface, abdomen and thighs ; dull light grey 

 tinged with pinkish cinnamon ; plumes from above the flanks 

 blood red with the ends of the feathers ashy white, a short tuft of 

 anterior plumes of the same tint, but becoming black at the ends of 

 the feathers over the base of the primary plumes and incurved, 

 their points meeting on the abdomen and ending abruptly, not 

 graduated towards the primary plumes. The two centre wire- 

 like tail-feathers black, the webs at the tips brown, the webbed 

 portion at the base metallic green ; the green of the throat is 

 separated from the chest by a narrow line of cinnamon buff ; legs 

 bluish lead colour with a pinkish tinge when alive. This species 

 is very distinct from Paradisea Raggiana, although the colour of 

 the plumes is almost the same, but the tips of the feathers end in 

 the same way as those of P. sanguinea. The velvet green chin- 

 patch extends more than half way down the throat on P. 

 Raggiana. There are no anterior tufts of plumes. The under 

 surface of these tufts are of a fiery red in certain lights. 



There is no shoulder bar on the wings of this new species, all 

 the coverts being tinged with yellow ; it is a slightly smaller 

 bird and the bill is weaker than in P. Raggiana. 



Adult Female. — The adult female resembles the young male. 

 In the former the two centre tail-feathers do not reach the length 

 of those on either side of them ; wings and tail brown above and 

 below, basal portion of the inner webs of the quills and the 

 under wing-coverts cinnamon buff. All the under surface, except 

 the throat, which is blackish, is of a cinnamon buff deeper in 



