174 i'.VRADISEID^. 



1. Diphyllodes magnifica. 



Oiseau de Paradis de la Noiivelle Guinee dit le Magnifique, 3Ivntb. 



PI. Enl. 631; Sonn. I'oy. N. Guin. p. 163, pi. 98; Levaill. H. N. 



Ois. Farad, i. pis. 9, 10. 

 Magniticent Paradise-bird, Lath. Gen. Si/n. ii. p. 477, pi. 19. 

 Paradisea magnifica, Peim. m Forst. Ind. Zool. p. 40 ; Gm. S. X. i. 



p. 401 ; Aitdeb. et VieilL Ois. Dor. ii. p. 15, pi. 4 ; Sha^v, Gen. Zool. 



vii. p. 492, pi. Q-2 ; Wagler, Si/st. Av. Paradisea, sp. 4 ; Less. Traite, 



p. 338 ; Wall. F. Z. S. 1862,"p. 160. 

 Pai-adisea speciosa, Bodd. Tuhl. Fl. Enl. p. 38 ; Gray, Gen. B. ii. 



p. 323 ; Schl. Mus. F.-B. Coraces, p. 86; id. N. T. D. iv. p. 171 ; 



Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 16. 

 Paradisea cirrhata. Lath. Ind. Om. i. p. 195. 

 Diphyllodes seleucides, if S6'. Ois. Farad. Syn. p. 16, pis. 19, 20. 

 Diphyllodes magnifica, Gray, List Gen. B. 1841, p. 53 ; Bp. Cmisp. i. 



p. 413; Wall. Ibis, 1861! p. 287; Bosenb. J. f. O. 1864, p. 130; 



Salvad. Ann. Mm. Ciric. Genov. ix. p. 192. 

 DiphYllodes speciosa. Wall. Malai/ Arch. ii. p. 247 ; Elliot, 3Ionogr. 



Farad, pi. 12 ; Scl. F. Z. S. 1873, p. 697 ; Wayler, J. f. O. 1873, 



p. 11, pi. 1. map 5 ; Gotdd, B. N. Guin. pt. ii.; Beccari, Ann. Mus. 



Civic. Genoi: vii. p. 712 ; Salvad. t. c. p. 783 ; Sclater, Ibis, 1876, 



p. 251. 



Adult male. Crowu of head covered with close-set velvety brown 

 feathers, deepening into dull orange on each side of the crown ; 

 forehead slightly washed with metallic green ; a spot at the base 

 of the bill and another above the eye velvety black, the latter slightly 

 glossed in front with metallic green ; from the nape a little fan- 

 shaped tuft of light-brown feathers, each with a subterminal spot of 

 darker brown ; from the hind neck a broad fan-shaped shield of 

 light yellow, flanked on each side by two long tufts of plumes brown 

 in colour, with a subterminal mark of darker brown on each, the 

 inner ones inclining to orange ; feathers of the back metallic chest- 

 nut ; lower back and rump orange, the upper tail-coverts and tail 

 dark brown, the two centre feathers produced and curved back on 

 themselves, metallic steel-green ; wing-coverts dull ochraceous, the 

 primary- coverts and quills dark brown, externally washed with 

 ochraceous straw-colour, the whole of the inner secondaries bright 

 ochraceous straw-colour ; cheeks and throat metallic olive-green ; 

 the under surface of the body from the throat, occupying the whole 

 of the breast in the form of a shield, rich green, the external feathers 

 tipped with metallic steel-blue, forming a fringe ; down the centre 

 of the breast a broadband of metallic emerald-green, formed by the 

 tips to the feathers being of this colour ; rest of under siu'face of 

 body purplish black ; under wing-coverts deep ochraceous, as also 

 the lining of the quUls. Total length 6-8 inches, culmen 0-95, wing 

 4*55, tail 1-95, middle tail-feathers 9"5, tarsus 1'35. 



Adult female. General colour dark olive-brown, the crown and 

 sides of head rather inclining to ochraceous brown ; wings and tail 

 dark brown, the former washed externally with olivaceous ; tail 

 clearer brown ; cheeks and under surface of body fulvcscent, the 

 throat and checks whiter, the whole barred across very distinctly 



