32 PAKADISEID.E. 



measures as follows: — (A) 1-32 x 0-98 inches; (B) 1-37 x 0-96 inches. Three eggs from different 

 nests: — (A) 1-3 x 0-96 inches; (B) 1-33 x 0-91 inches; (C) 1-25 x 0-97 inches. 



Figure 1 on Plate B iii. is from a specimen which was kindly lent, among many others, 

 by Mr. Charles French, Junr. 



A beautiful set of eggs in Mr. G. A. Keartland's collection, taken by Mr. K. L. Jardine, at 

 Somerset, measures: — (A) 1-3 x 0-96 inches; (B) 1-3 x 0-95 inches. Another set of two, taken 

 by the same gentleman, measures; — (A) 1-35 x 0-92 inches; (B) 1-28 x 0-91 inches. 



Although the eggs of Prince Albert's and Queen Victoria's Rifle-birds are almost equal in 

 size, typical eggs of the former can readily be distinguished by their lighter ground colour and 

 •darker and less richly coloured markings. 



Young males are similar to the adult females in plumage. Young males in change of 

 plumage have some of the primaries blue-black, the hind-neck, mantle, lesser and median wing- 

 coverts, and upper tail-coverts rich velvety-black; the lustrous metallic steel -green feathers first 

 appearing on the nape, remainder of the upper parts as in the adult female; sides of the head, 

 the throat, and fore-neck bare; from either side of the chest there is a line of olivaceous feathers 

 spreading out on to the flanks where the plumes are slightly elongated and shaded with purple; 

 remainder of the under-surface dull white with dark brown cross-bars, under tail-coverts and 

 some of the under wing-coverts black. W ing 6"5 inches. 



An old male in the moult has the forehead, sides of the head, hind-neck, throat, and centre 

 •of the fore-neck bare, the latter dividing the metallic steel-green shield in the throat and fore- 

 neck, iind which is destitute of the rich purple and the golden olivaceous bands immediately 

 below it; crown of the head rich \elvety -black. Wing 6-85 inches. 



Sub-Family PARADISEIN^. 

 Oexi-O-S :E'I3:OnSr'^3-^f\.n^.i^, Lesion. 



Phonygama gouldi. 



AUSTRALIAN TRUMPET-BIRD. 



Mamicodia keraudreni (nee Less.), Gould, Bds. Austr., fol., Suppl., pi. 9. 



Manucodia gouldii, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. IS.^O, p. 158, note; Gould, Handbk. Bds. Austr., Vol. I., 

 p. 236 (1865). 



Phonygama gouldi, Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., Vol. III., p. 181 (1877). 



Adult male — General colour above and heloir glossy steel-green, less brilliant on the under 

 parts; iving-coverls like the back; primaries blackish, glossed on their outer webs with steel-green; 

 secondaries glossy steel-green on their outer ii:ebs, black nti the inner, the innermost feathers entirely 

 glossy bluish-green as are also the inner greater wing-coverts ; tail feathers blackisJi, glossed with 

 steel-green, ivhich decreases in extent on the outermost featliers ; head and tuft of lengtlieued 7iarrotv 

 plumes on each side of the occiput steel green; feathers of the tliroat and neck lanceolate inform; 

 abdomen and under tail-coverts dull purplish-black icith dark greenish tips to most of the featliers; 

 bill and legs black; iris red. Total length 1.2 inches, wing 6'5, tail 5-5, bill I'lB, tarsus l-oS. 



Adult female — Similar to the male in plumage, but slightly smaller, and the plumes on each 

 side of the occiput much shorter. 



Distribution. — Cape York Peninsula. 



