8. CICINNUUUS. 171 



straw-yellow ; remainder of the upper surface, including the back, 

 wings, and tail, ruddy chestnut-brown, as also the under surface of 

 the body from below the fore neck, which forms a band of straw- 

 ycUow somewhat descending on the sides of the neck. Total length 

 12-5 inches, culmen 1-3, wing 6'35, tail 5, tarsus 1'55. 



Yoiing male. At first exactly similar to the female. It is appa- 

 rently a long time before the adult plumage is gained ; and specimens 

 are often seen with the metallic velvety plumes of the head com- 

 pletely assumed, as well as the yellow head and neck ; the long 

 middle tail-feathers are at first spatulated, the shaft hard, but not 

 particularly horny. All the webs of these feathers gradually dis- 

 appear, leaving a remarkable hard horny shaft, the latter being 

 sometimes perfectly formed, and yet retaining at its tip the feathered 

 spatula of the younger stage. 



Hub. Islands of Waigiou, Ghemien, and IJatanta. 



a, b. cf ad. sk. Waigiou. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [0. 



c-i c? imm. sk. Waigiou. A. R. Wallace, Esq. C. 



k, I. 2 ad. sk. Waigiou. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C. 



s. CICINNUEUS. 



Type. 



Ciciunm-us, Vicill. N. Diet. cVIIist. Nut. xix. p. 247 (1818) . . C. regius. 

 Range. New Guinea and Salwatti, Aru Islands, Mysol, Jobi. 



1. Cicinnurus regius. 



The supposed king of the Greater Birds of Paradise, Edivards, Birds, 



iii. pi. 111. 

 Le Petit Oiseau de Paradise, Briss. Orn. ii. p. 136, pi. 1.3. 

 Paradisea regia, Linn. S. N. i. p. 166 (e.r Edwards) ; Shmo, Gen. 



Zool. vii. p. 497, pi. 67 ; Less. Ten/. Coquille, i. p. 658, pi. 26 ; 



Waqler, Si/st. Av. Paradisea, sp. 7; Grm/, Gen. B. ii. p. 32.3 ; Schl. 



Hand-l. Bicrk. i. p. 332, pi. iv. fig. 46; id. J.f. O. 1861, p. 385; 



id. Mus. P.-B. Coraces, p. 88 ; id. N. T. D. iv. pp. 17, 49 ; Gray, 



P. Z. S. 1858, p. 181, 1861, p. 436 ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 16 ; Wall. 



Ibis, 1850, p. Ill ; id. P. Z. S. 1862, p. 160; id. Malay Arch. ii. 



p. 132 ; Waeijer, Zuol. Gart. 1873, p. 10. 

 Le Roi des Oiseaux de Paradis, Sonn. Voy. N. Guin. i. p. 156, 



pi. 95. 

 Le Manucode, Buff. H. N. Ois. iii. p. 163, pi. 13 : id. PI. Enl. p. 192, 



pi. 496 ; Audeb. 8)- Vieill. Ois. Dor. ii. p. 16, pi. 5 ; Levaill. H. N. 



Ois. Par ad. i. pis. 7, 8. 

 Ciciimurus spinturnix, I^ess. Ois. Parad. Syn. p. 14 ; id. H, N. Ois. 



Parad. p. 182, pis. 16-18. 

 Cicinnurus regius, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xix. p. 247 ; id. Gal. 



Ois. i. p. 146, pi. xcvi.; Les.s. Trnite, p. 3.38; Bp. Comp. i. p. 413; 



Wall. Ihis, 1861, p. 287 ; Rosenb. J. f. O. 1864, p. 130 ; Elliot, 



Monoqr. Parad. pi. xvi.: Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genoi\ vii. p. 783; 



id. ^- 'D' Albert, t. c. p. 832 ; Salmd. op. cit. ix. p. 192 : Gonld, B. N. 



Guin. part iii. 



Adult male. General colour above bi-illiant metallic crimson, 

 slightly orange under certain lights, and more particularly so iu the 



N 2 



