158 PARADISEIB.E. 



Bp. Comp. i. p. 412 ; Gray, P. Z. S. 18o9, p. 155 ; Schl. J. f. (). 



1861, p. 386; id. Mus. P.-B. Coraces, p. 96. 



Craspedophora magnifica, Grmi, List Gen. B. 1841, p. 15; Reichenb. 

 Jlandb. Scausoriae, p. 330, Taf. dcxi. figs. 4089-91 ; Wall. P. Z. S. 



1862, p. 160; Bosenb. J. f. O. 1864, p. 128; Salvad. Ann. Mus. 

 Civic. Genov. ix. p. 191. 



Epimacliiis paradiseus, Gray, Gen. B. ii. pi. xxxii. {nee Stvains.). 



Ptilornis magniiicus, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 105. 



Ptilorhis maguiticus, Elliot, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 583 ; id. Monogr. Parad. 



pi. xxiii. ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. vii. p. 785. 

 Ptiloris superbus, Beccari, Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. vii. p. 713. 



Male. Top of liead and occiput, centre of throat, and entire upper 

 part of breast shining bluish green, purple in certain lights ; entire 

 upper parts deep velvety black, with rich dark purple reflections ; 

 primaries black, ^vith green reflections ; a narrow line of green, red 

 in some lights, beneath the metallic of the breast ; flanks and abdo- 

 men purple ; side plumes also purple, basal half and filamentary 

 ends black ; two centre tail-feathers shining green ; remainder 

 velvety black, with green reflections on their outer webs ; bill, feet, 

 and legs stout, black. {Elliot, I. c.)* 



Female. Above cinnamon-rufous, the wings and tail entirely of 

 the same colour as the back, the inner webs browner ; over the eye 

 a narrow streak of white ; lores and sides of face dusky brown, the 

 former washed with rufous, the ear-coverts minutely streaked with 

 rufous along the shafts of the feathers ; cheeks white, the feathers 

 somewhat scaly in appearance ; a malar streak of dark brown on 

 each side of the throat ; throat white, slightly mottled with minute 

 dusky cross markings ; rest of under sirrface of body dull white, very 

 numerously and thickly barred across with dusky blackish. Total 

 length 12 inches, culmen 1*95, wing 6-6, tail 4-45, tarsus 1"65. 

 {S.E. Nexu Guinea : coll. 0. G. Stone.) 



Young male. Similar to the adult female, but of a deeper rufous, 

 the head and neck rather dingier than the back ; a tolerably well- 

 defined white eyebrow, the feathers edged with brown ; lores and 

 ear-coverts dusky chocolate-brown, with very few ochraceous shaft- 

 streaks ; luider surface of body dirty white, very thickly barred across 

 with black ; the flank-plumes elongated, but barred exactly like the 

 breast ; from the base of the lower mandible a malar streak of dusky 

 black, continued down the sides of the throat onto the sides of the 

 chest. Total length 14-5 inches, culmen 2-3, wing 6-95, tail 4*9, 

 tarsus 1-65. {Dorey : A. R. Wallace.) 



Hah. New Guinea. 



a, b. (S ad. sk. New Guinea. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



c. Ad. St. New Guinea. [Native skin.] 



d. (S juv. sk. Dorey. A. R. Wallace, Esq. 



* The above description is taken from Mr. Elliot's work, as the specimens in 

 the British Museum are imperfect. 



