4. EPIMACHUS. 163 



dark brown, edge of outer web rufous ; cheeks, throat, and upper 

 part of breast brownish black ; underparts white, narrowly barred 

 with black ; tail light brown, with a rufous tinge ; bill long and 

 slender, much curved, aud, with the feet and tarsi, jet-black. 

 Hah. New Guinea. 



a. (f ad. St. New Guinea. Baron Laugier. 



h. (j" juu.sk. New Guinea. Purchased. 



2. Epimachus ellioti, 



Epimachus ellioti, Ward, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 743; Elliot, Moiiof/r. 

 Parad. pi. 20 ; Beccari, Ami. Mus. Civic. Genov. vii. p. 710; Salv'ud. 

 op. cit. ix. p. 190. 



Top of head rich amethyst ; occiput and side of neck also ame- 

 thyst-colour, changing in certain lights to a rich light greenish 

 gloss ; back, wings, upper tail-coverts, and tail brilliant violet- 

 purple ; the wings and the tail also marbled with a dark amethyst 

 hue, like watered silk, changing according to the light ; throat and 

 upper portion of breast deep maroon-colour, with purplo reflections, 

 , a narrow reddish purple band crosses the lower part of the breast ; 

 sides of the breast, flanks, and rest of underparts dark green, the 

 flank-feathers much elongated and stretching beyond the wings ; 

 beneath the shoulder of the wing spring two rows of plumes which 

 are greenish at the base, graduating into deep piirple, and termi- 

 nating in a brilliant metallic blue, very much narrower on the 

 upper row than the lower one. The plumage of the entire bird is 

 very velvety in texture, aud, with the exception of the metallic 

 parts, appears black in ordinary lights ; bill black, rich orange- 

 yellow at the gape. {Elliot, I. c.) 



Hah. ?Waigiou. 



Subfam. II. PAIIADISEINJ5. 



Key to the Genera. 



a. Tail very long and gTaduated, but the cen- 



tral plumes uot elongated into wire-like 

 shafts. 

 «'. Lores and angle of mouth thickly 



feathered ; tail longer than the body ; 



head surrounded hy an erect frill, 



round the throat a metaUic frill of 



golden copper 5. Asthapia, p. Km. 



■ h'. Lores with an erect orange -yellow 



wattle, angle of mouth with a pendent 



one of azure-blue ; tail shorter than 



the body ; no frills roimd the head or 



thi'oat 0. Pahadigalla, p. 165. 



b. Centre tail-feathers produced into wire-like 



shafts. 

 (■'. ^^'ith no dorsal shield. 



