154 l-ARADISEIDJi. 



Adult females. 



It. Head rufous like the rest of tlie back maijnijiia. p. lo7. 



b. Head ashy brown, contrasting with the rufous 

 of the wing's. 

 a'. Underneath dull white, thickly barred across 

 with black, from the lower throat down- 

 wards alberti. p. loC). 



b'. Underneath white tinged with fawn-colour, 

 and marked with narrow black bars of a 



horseshoe-shape paradisea, p. 154. 



c'. Underneath fawn-colour, with a few indistinct 



.spots and bars of dusky brown vicf.orice, p. lo-l. 



1. Ptilorhis paradisea. 



Ptiloris paradisea, Simins. Zool. Jouni. i. 481 ; Less. H. N. Ois. 



Panul pp. 2o, 213, pis. 29, 30: GouM, B. Ausfr. iv. pi. 100; 



Gnu/, Gen. B, i. p. 9i; Bp. Coiisp. i. p. 412; Cab. 3Ius. Hein. 



Th. i. p. 214 ; Beichenb. Ilanclb. spec. Orn. Scansorite, p. 328, Taf. 



dclx. tigs. 3033-85 ; Gould, Hatulb. B. Austr. i. p. 591 ; Grai/, 



Iland-l. B. i. p. 105; Elliot, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 582; id. Monogr. 



Farad, pi. xxv. 

 Epiraachus brisbani, Wilson, III. Zool. pi. 9; Less. Man. d'Oi-n. ii. 



Epimachus regius, Less. Voy. CoquUle, Zool. p. 667, pi. 28 ; id. Cent. 



Zool. pi. 3. 

 Epimachus paradiseus, Schl. J. f. O. 1861, p. 386; id. Mns. P.-B. 



Coraces, p. 97. 



Adult male. General colo^^r above velvety black, changing to 

 deep fiery purple when viewed away from the light ; wings 

 black, the coverts deep purple like the back and scapulars, the 

 quills bluish purple at tip, the inner secondaries shaded with 

 violet and bluish purple ; tail-feathers velvety black, the two centre 

 feathers burnished steel-green, the next ones on each side glossed 

 with steel-blue near the base ; crown of head burnished coppeiy 

 green, fringed on the hind neck with metallic steel-blue ; behind 

 the eye, above the ear-coverts, a longitudinal patch of velvety 

 purple ; sides of face, sides of neck and throat black, shaded purple 

 like the back when held away from the light ; from the lower throat 

 a large triangular patch of burnished steel-green, extending to the 

 fore neck ; breast velvety purple, each feather with a mesial shade 

 of purplish blue, the plumes of the lower breast edged with olive- 

 green ; the rest of the under surface entirelj' of the latter colour 

 with coppery purple bases ; under wing- and tail-coverts black ; 

 biU and legs black. Total length 11-5 inches, culmen 2, wing 6-2, 

 tail 4-4, tarsus 1-45. 



Adult female. General colour above ashy brown ; the head also 

 of this colour, all the feathers narrowly streaked with huffy white ; 

 over the eye a long streak of dull white, forming a distinct eye- 

 brow ; lores and sides of face brown, minutely streaked with huffy 

 white, these streaks being also visible on the sides of the neck ; 

 cheeks and throat pale ochraccous buff, with whitish shaft-streaks ; 



