1G6 PARADISEIDJ5. 



pi. xvii. : Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. C/enov. vii. p. 784 ; Beccari, 

 t. c. p. 711 J Scl. Ibis, 1876, p. 250 ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. 

 ix. p. 190. 

 Astrapia carunculata, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. .326 ; Schl. J. f. O. 1861, 

 p. 386; Rosmh. J.f. O. 1864, p. 131; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 17. 



Adult male. General colour velvety black above and below, a 

 little browner ou tbo under surface ; wiugs and tail black, the 

 inner secondaries with a purplish gloss under certain lights ; head 

 glossed with metallic steel-green ; forehead, lores, and base of lower 

 mandible bare ; over each nostril a small tuft of black feathers ; on 

 each side of the base of the bill an erect wattled skin ; round the 

 eye a ring of black plumes ; space below and behind the eye bare ; 

 bill and legs black ; " upper wattles, which are attached one on each 

 side of the forehead, of a yellowish green colour ; those at the base 

 of the lower mandible blue, having a small patch of orange under- 

 neath" {Beccari). Total length 11'2 inches, culmen 0"55, wing 6-15, 

 tail 4-85, tarsus 1'9. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but smaller. 



Hah. ISTew Guinea. 



a. S ad. sk. Arfak Mountains, New Guinea, 1875. Dr. 0. Beccari [C.]. 

 7. PARADISEA. 



Type. 



Paradisea, Linn. S. N. i. p. 166 (1766) P. apoda. 



Uranornis, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. ix. p. 191 . . P. sanguinea. 



Range. New Guinea, Aru Islands, Waigiou, Mysol, Jobie, Mysore. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Long flank-plumes yellow, white towards their tips ; 



green on the throat produced to the maroon breast, 

 and not separated by a yellow collar. 

 a'. Size larger ; mantle maroon-brown like the rest 



of the back ; female maroon-brown apoda, p. 166. 



U. Size smaller; mantle dull straw-colour; female 



white on the breast minor, p. 168. 



b. Long flank-plumes red ; green of the throat sepa- 



rated from the maroon breast by a collar of straw- 

 yeUow. 

 c'. Mantle maroon-brown; flank-plumes very long, 

 as in P. apoda ; two centre tail-feathers pro- 

 duced into a long wire-like plume turned round 



at the end raggiana, p. 169. 



d'. Mantle straw-yellow ; flank-plumes shorter, and 

 brownish at tip ; two centre tail-feathers pro- 

 duced into a broad horny plume sanguinea, p. 170. 



1. Paradisea apoda. 



The Greater Bird of Paradise, Edwards, Birds, iii. pi. 110. 

 L'Oiseau de Paradis, Briss. Orn. ii. p. 130, pi. xiii. 

 Paradisea apoda, Linn. S. N. i. p. 165 ; Wagler, Syst. Av. Paradisea, 

 sp. 1 ; Gray, Gen. B. ii, p. 323 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 412 ; Gray, P. Z. S. 



