160 PARiDISEID,!;. 



rest of the under surface of body biifFy yellow, the plumes of the 

 Hanks elongated and silky, and furnished with six thread-like shafts, 

 produced to a great length and curved backwards on the body ; 

 under wing-coverts black ; bill black. Total length 12 inches, cul- 

 men 2-7, wing 6-45, tail 3-15, tarsus 1-75, threads reaching 10-2 

 inches beyond the flank-feathers. 



Adult female. General colour above bright chestnut-red; back of 

 the neck and sides of the same black ; the feathers of the mantle 

 also mottled with black, the bases of the feathers being of this colour ; 

 crown of head and nape velvety black, with a purplish gloss when 

 seen away from the light ; wing-coverts and secondaries chestnut- 

 red, like the back, the primaries black, chestnut on their outer 

 webs ; tail uniform chestnut ; space round and behind the eye bare, 

 as also a spot on the auricular region ; ear- coverts black ; sides of 

 face and throat greyish white, faintly mottled with dusky bars of 

 blackish ; rest of under surface of body bufl^y brown, washed here 

 and there Math pale rufous, the whole transversely barred with 

 somewhat irregular cross lines of -blackish brown, broader on the 

 fore neck and breast, and more faintly indicated on the abdomen, 

 and especially on the long flank-feathers and under tail-coverts ; 

 under wing-coverts bright chestnut, with dusky blackish cross bars. 

 Total length 12-5 inches, culmen 2-55, wing 6-5, tail 4-3, tarsus 1-7. 



Youncf male. At first resembles the adult female. A specimen 

 collected by Mr. Wallace is in perfect plumage as regards its head, 

 mantle, and breast, the rest of the body being in the chestnut plu- 

 mage of the female, the tail being still entirely chestnut. At the same 

 time the beautiful purple colour is being put on the wings by a 

 gradual change of feather and not by a moult ; half the inner 

 secondaries are chestnut, but more or less mottled with blackish, 

 the purple colour appearing very plainly on the inner webs. 



Hah. New Guinea. 



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



c, d. 2 ad. sk. New Guinea. A. E. Wallace, Esq. [0.] 



e. c? juv. sk. New Guinea. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C] 



3. DREPANORNIS. ^ype. 



Drepanophorus, Sclater, Nature, 1873, p. 192 (nee Eijerton) D. albertisi. 

 Drepanoniis, Sclater, P. Z. .S. 1873, p. 560 1). albertisi. 



Range. North-eastern New Guinea. 



1. Drepanornis albertisi. 



Drepanophorus albertisi, Sol. Nat. 1873, p. 192. 



Drepanornis albertisi, 8cl. Nat. 1873, p. 305, cum fig. ; id. P. Z. S. 



1873, p. 560, pi. xlvii. ; D'Albertis, t. c. ^. 558; Mliot, 3Iono(/r. 



Parad. pi. 21 ; Goidd, B. N. Gum. part i. ; Salvad. Ann. Mug. 



Civic. Genov. vii. p. 785; Beccari, t. c. p. 711; Scl. Ibis, 1876, 



p. 250; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. ix. p. ItX). 

 Epimachiis wilhelminse, Meyer, Nat. lijds. 1873, p. 415 ; J. f. O. 



1873, p. 404 ; id. Ibis, 1874, p. 303; Finsc/i, t. c. p. 54. 

 Epimachus veithi, Rosenb. Reist. N. Gain. pi. xviii. 



