PHONYGAMA. 



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outer convolution, which extends on to the abdominal muscles, it measures in total length five 

 inches and three-quarters, and its greatest width transversely through the centre of the coil is 

 two inches. Figure 3 is also that of a trachea of a male P. goiddi from Cape York, and was 

 presented by Mr. R. Grant, who received the bird in spirits shortly after it had been procured. 

 It is similar to Pavesi's figure 1,* and measures from the base of the larynx to the lowest part 

 of the outer convolution five inches and a half, and its greatest width transversely through the 

 centre of the coil is two inches and a quarter. Figure 5 is that of the trachea of a semi-adult female 

 of P. goiddi from Cape York. It is convoluted, but only to a small extent, consisting of a single loop. 

 From the base of the larynx to the lowest outer portion of the loop it measures in a straight line 

 3'6 inches. Figure 4 is that of a trachea registered as belonging to a male P. keraudreni, from the 

 Laloki River, New Guinea. I have not seen the skin belonging to it, and have therefore no means 

 of verification. From the base of the larynx to the lowest portion of the outer coil it measures 

 four inches and three-quarters, and transversely through the centre of the coil one inch and 

 three-quarters. Lesson's figure! of the trachea of this species, which gives the dorsal aspect, 



although having the same number of 

 convolutions, is somewhat different in 

 the disposition of the inner loops. 



On examining the stomachs belong- 

 ing to the bodies of figures 2 and .5, I 

 found they contained the stones and 

 seeds of various fruits. 



Although there are several species 

 representative of each of the genera 

 Mamtcodia and Phonygama in New 

 Guinea, and they are by no means 

 uncommon, more than a century had 

 elapsed since the type of the former 

 genus — Alaniicodia chalybeata — had 

 been described before any knowledge 

 was gained of the nidification and 

 eggs of any species of either of these 

 closely allied genera. Through the 

 exertions, however, of the Rev. R. H. 

 Rickard, I had the pleasure of des- 

 cribing and figuring the egg of Manucodia comrii,\ which is by far the most lovely species 

 of this genus. The nest Mr. Rickard found in the lower branches of a bread-fruit tree 

 in July, iSgr, on Fergusson Island, off the south-east coast of New Guinea. The female was 

 sitting on the nest, which was an open structure formed of vinelets and plant tendrils, and 

 placed at the extremity of a branch. It contained two eggs of a warm isabelline ground colour 

 with purplish dots, blotches, and bold longitudinal streaks evenly dispersed over the surface of 

 the shell, intermingled with similar underlying markings of purplish-grey. Length 1-65 x 1-13 

 inches. This is a typically marked egg of a Bird of Paradise, resembling that of Paradisea 

 raggiana, in markings, more than any other species. 



Through Mr. Keartland, the following note has been kindly sent to me by Mr. Robert L. 

 Jardine, of Somerset: — ''Gould's Manucode is generally found in the margins of scrubs, and is 





NEST OF AUSTRALIAN TRUM PET-BIKD. 



♦ Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen., Vol. ix., p. 68 (1876). 

 t Voy. de la Coquille, Atlas, pi. xiii., fig. 2 (1826). 

 ; Rec. Aust. Mus , Vol. ii., p. 32, pi. vii. (1892). 



