170 PARADISEID^. 



brown. A male shot on Mount Epa ou the 23rd of April begins to 

 show indications of the approaching bright plumage on the head 

 and throat. 



Hah. South-eastern New Guinea. 



a. (5 ad. sk. S.E. New Guinea, April 13, Signer A. D'Albertis [C.l. 



1875. 



b. $ ad. sk. S.E. New Guinea, May 1, Signer A. D'Albertis [0.1. 



1875. 

 d. c? juv. sk, Mount Epa, N. G. April 24, Signer A. D'Albertis [C.]. 

 1875. 



4. Paradisea sanguinea. 



Le Paradis rouge, Audeb. i/- Vieill. Ois. Dor. ii. p. 14, pi. 3. 



L'Oiseau de Paradis rouge, Levaill. Ok. Farad, i. pi. 6. 



Paradisea sanguinea, Shaw, Gen. Zuol. vii. p. 487, pi. 59 ; Gray, Hand-l. 



B. ii. p. IG ; Elliot, Motiogr. Farad, pi. iv. ; Sahad. Ann. Miis. Civic. 



Genov. vii. p. 782. 

 Paradisea rubra, Vieill. Gal. Ois. i. p. 152, pi. 99 ; Less. Voy. Coqiiille, 



Zool. p. CiGO, pi. 27 ; Wagler, Syst. Av. Paradisea, sp. 3 ; Less. 



Traite, p. 336, pi. 3 ; id. Ois. Farad. Syn. p. 8 ; id. Hist. Nat. p. 160, 



pis. 7, 8 ; Grotj, Gen. B. ii. p. 323, pi. 79 ; 5p. Consp. i. p. 413 ; 



TVall. Ibis, 1859, p. Ill, 1861, p. 287 ; id. F. Z. S. 1862, p. 160; 



Sckl. J.f. O. 1861, p. 385 ; id. N. T. D. ii. p. 249 ; id. Mus. F.-B. 



Coraces, p. 84. 

 Uranornis rubra, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. ix. p. 191. 



Adult male. Fore part of crown enclosing the eye, sides of face, 

 and entire throat brilliant metallic green, the plumes of a velvety 

 texture and elevated into a small tuft of raised feathers above the 

 eye ; lores, plumes in front of the eye, and chin velvety black, with 

 an oily green lustre ; hinder part of head, nape, hind neck, sides of 

 neck, as well as the fore neck (forming a jugular band), and the entire 

 mantle bright golden straw-colour, deepening into orange-brown on 

 the sides of the mantle, scapulars, and middle of the back, the latter 

 being deep ruddy brown shaded with orange ; rump straw-yellow ; 

 xipper tail-coverts and tail ruddy chestnut-brown, the two centre 

 feathers consisting of two long shafts 21 inches in length, of a 

 metallic horny structure ; wing-coverts golden straw-colour like the 

 back ; the bastard wing, primary-coverts, and quills ruddy chestnut- 

 brown, with reddish shafts to the feathers ; breast deep purplish 

 chestnut, the yellow on the fore neck running a little way down on 

 each side of the upper breast, and forming a kind of incipient shield, 

 as all the plumes are stiff in texture ; abdomen and under tail- 

 coverts rich chestnut-brown, but not so deeply coloured as the breast; 

 the flank-plumes elongated into two immense tufts of ])right crimson 

 feathers hoary white at their tips, where the plumes become more lax ; 

 under wing-coverts deep chestnut-brown. Total length 13 inches, 

 culmen 1-35, wing 6-65, taU .5-2, tarsus 1-7. 



Adult female. Fore part of head, sides of face, and entire throat 

 rich purplish brown ; hinder part of head, neck all round, and mantle 

 straw-yellow, deepening into orange, the wing-coverts also deep 



