162 TARADISEID-E. 



1. Epimachus speciosus. 



Le Grand Promerops de la Nonvelle Guinee, Somi. Toi/. X. (jtiin. 



p. 163, pi. 101 (c?). 

 Le Promerops bruo de la Nouvelle Guinee, id. t. c. p. I(.i4, pi. 



ioo($)- . . . . . ^ 



Grand Promerops a paremens frises, Huff^. H. X. Ois. vi. p. 472. 



Promerops de la Nouvelle Guinee, Buff. PL Enl. vi. pis. (538, 639. 



Upupa speciosa, Bodd. Tahl. PL EnL p. 39 {vx PL Enl. 638). 



Upupa striata, Bodd. t. c. p. 39 ( $ , cr PL EnL 639). 



New-Guinea Brown Promerops, Lath. Gen. Sijn. i. pt. 2, p. 694. 



Grand Promerops, Lath. t. c. p. 695. 



Upupa fusca, Gm. S. N. i. p. 468 (e.r Lath.). 



Upupa magna, G?n. t. c. p. 468 {e.x Lath.). 



Le Promerops rave, Aiideb. et VieilL Ois. Dor. i. pi. 7. 



Le Promerops a large parm-e, LevailL IT. N. Promer. et Gucp. 



pis. 13, 15. 

 Promerops striata, Sliaw, Gen. Zodl. viii. p. 144. 

 Promerops superbus, Shaw, t. c. p. 145. 



FalcineUus superbu.'?, VieiU. N. Bict. d'Hist. Nat. xxviii. p. 166. 

 Falcinellus magniiicus, VieiU. t. c. p. 167. 

 Epimachus magnus, Cuvier, Regne Anitn. i. p. 407. 

 Epimaclius superbus, Steph. Gen. ZuoL xiv. p. 77 ; Wuf/ler, Si/st. Av. 



Epimachus, sp. 1 ; Less. Traite, p. 321, Aths, pi. 73. tig. 1 ; 



Rosmb. J.f. O. 1864, p. 123. 

 Cinnamolegus papuensis, Less. Ois. Farad. Syn. p. 32; id. H. N. 



pis. 39, 40. 

 Epimachus speciosus, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 94; SchL 3Ius. P.-B. Co- 

 races, p. 94 ; Elliot, Monogr. Parad. pi. xix. ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. 



Civic. Getiov. vii. p. 785, ix. p. 190. 

 Epimachus magnus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 411 ; WalL Ibis, 1861, p. 287 ; 



id. P. Z. S. 1862, p. 160 : id. Malay Archip. ii. p. 255; SchL J.f. O. 



1861, p. 380 ; id. N. T. D. i. p. 332. 

 Epimachus maximus, Gray, P. Z. S. 1801, p. 433 ; id. Hand-l. B. i. 



p. 105 ; Bcccari, Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. vii. p. 710 ; Scl. Ibis, 



1876, p. 249. 



Adult male. Above velvety black, with metallic feathers of cop- 

 pery green on the head, middle of the back, and rump ; lores and 

 feathers on the side of the head metallic like the crown ; entire 

 under surface of body velvety black, with a purplish brown gloss on 

 the sides of the body ; on each side of the breast springs a tuft of 

 sickle-shaped plumes in the shape of a fan velvety black, tipped with 

 a broad band of steel-blue, before which is a narrow subterminal 

 band of pur[)lish blue ; flank-feathers long and drooping, the outer 

 ones broadly tipped with metallic bronzy green, before which is a 

 double subterminal band of velvety black and purplish blue ; wings 

 velvety black, with a gloss of steel-blue ; tail-featliers black, all but 

 the three outermost feathers washed with steel-blue, the two centre 

 ones entirely of this colour ; bill and legs black : " iris dark brick- 

 red " (Beccari). Total length 20 inches, culmen 2-bo, wing 7-2, 

 tail 16-7. 



Female. Upper part of head brownish red : rest of upper parts 

 olive-brown, becomuig slightly rufous on the rump and upper tail- 

 coverts ; secondaries reddish brown, edged with rufous : ju'imaries 



