1'aeadiseidj:. 153 



Family PARADISEIDyE. 



n. Bill elongated and slender, the culmen 



longer than the tarsus Sub/am. EPIMA CHINAi, p. 153. 



b. Bill short and more or less stout, the cul- 

 men not so long as the tarsus. Sub/am. PARADISEINA, p. 163. 



Subfam. I. EPIMACHIN^. 



Key to the Genera. 



a. Tail not so much elongated, not equal in 



length to the body of the bird. 

 «'. With a jugular shield of metallic plumes 



occupying the throat and fore neck . . 1. Ptilorhis, p. 153, 

 b'. With no jugular shield ; fore neck with- 

 out metallic plumes. 

 a". Flank-feathers produced, yellowish like 

 the breast, the shafts elongated into 



six threads; tail square 2. Seleucides, p. 159. 



b". Flank-feathers produced into a brown 

 fan-like shield, all the feathers 

 tipped with purple ; tail graduated. 3. Drepaxohnis, p. 160. 



b. Tail enormously elongated, much longer 



than the body of the bird 4. Epimachtjs, p. 161. 



1. PTILORHIS. ^ 



Ptilorhis, Swains. Zool. Jonrn. i. p. 481 (1825) P. paradisea. 



Craspedophora, Gray, List Gen. B. 1841, p. 15 P. maguifica. 



Uanxcje. Australia and New Guinea. 



Ke]f to the Species. 

 Adult male.":. 



u. Metallic shield on breast extending from the 

 lower throat and occupying the fore neck ; 

 long silky plumes attached to the flanks, 

 not reaching beyond the imder tail-coverts; , _ ,. , - , 



breast purple below the pectoral shield .... \^ ■'. •"'" ' Sr- ' 

 b. Metallic shield extending from the chin to the ' ^'"^^<""*'^' P- ^^*^- 

 upper breast, and followed by a double band 

 of purple and oily golden green ; long flank- 

 plumes reaching beyond the tail. 

 a'. Breast washed with oily green, the abdomen 

 and flanks with purple, in female ashy 



brown f>n the hcact and back alberli, p. 156. 



b'. Breast below the double pectoral band piu-plc magnijka, p. 157. 



