11. SCHLEGELIA. 175 



with black. Total length 7-8 inches, culmcn 0-95, wing 4-45, tail 2-6, 

 tarsus 1-35, 



Hah. New Guinea and Mysol. 



a,b. c? ? ad. sk. New Guinea. Purchased. 



c, d. cJ ad. sk. New Guinea. Native skins. 



2. DiphyUodes chrysoptera. 



Diphyllodes speciosa, var. chrysoptera, Elliot, Mmogr. Parad. pi. V6. 

 Diphyllodes chrysoptera, Gould, B. N. Guin. part ii. ; Beccari, Ann. 

 Mm. Civic, vii. p. 710 ; Salvad. t. c. p. 971, ix. p. 192. 



Similar to D. magnifica, but having the secondaries and edgings 

 to the primaries golden. 

 Hub. Island of Jobi. 



11. SCHLEGELIA. ^j, 



Schlegelia, Bemst. N. T. D. iii. p. 4, pi. 7 (18G4) S. calva. 



Range. Islands of Waigiou and Batanta. 



1 . SchlegeUa wilsoni. 



Paradisea wilsoni, Cass. Juuni. Acad. N. Sci. Philad. ii. p. 133, pi. 1-5 • 



Gray, P. Z. S. 1861, p. 43(3 ; Sclafer, P. Z. S. 186.5, p. 465 ; Schl. 



N. T. D. iii. p. 249 ; id. Mas. P.-B. Coraces, p. 87 ; Graij, Hand-l. 



B. ii. p. 16; Wanner, J. f. O. 1873, p. 11, Cart. vii. 

 Diphyllodes respubliea (ue'c Bp.) Sclater, P. Z. S. 18.57, p. 6; Eosenb. 



J.f. O. 1864, p. 130; Elliot, Monoyr. Parad. pi. 14 ; Goidd, B. N. 



Guin. part iii. 

 Diphyllodes wilsoni, Wall. P.Z. S. 1862, p. 160; Neiot. Ibis, 1865, 



p. 343 ; Wall. Malay Arch. ii. p. 248 ; Beccari, Atin. Mus. Civ, 



Genov. vii. p. 713 ; Sclater, His, 1876, p. 251. 

 Paradisea calva, ScJd. iV. T. D. ii. p. 1. 

 Schlegelia calva, Bemst. K T. B. iii. p. 4, pi. 7. 

 Schlegelia respubhca, Salmd. Ann. Mas. Civic. Genov. ix. p. 192.^ 



Adult male. Head bare, of a bright blue colour in life ; nasal 

 plumes, lores and forehead, cheeks, ear-coverts, chin and upper 

 throat covered with velvety feathers of an oily broAvn lustre ; a 

 narrow line of the same feathers drawn from the centre of the 

 frontal patch down the back of the head to the hind neck, and trans- 

 versely crossed above the occiput by a naiTow lino of velvety plumes 

 which run down the side of the hinder sktdl along the sides of the 

 neck to the hind neck ; behind the car-coverts a small bare patch ; 

 sides of neck and a band above the mantle and running down the 

 sides of the latter metallic oily green ; mantle bright yellow ; re- 

 mainder of the back bright metallic crimson, the lower plumes 

 tipped with black, forming a terminal fringe ; on each side of the 

 back a border of greenish black, formed by the outer webs of the 

 crimson plumes, which are somewhat curved inwards ; rump brown, 

 washed -n-ith reddish; upper tail-coverts olivaceous brown; tail 

 brown, the two centre feathers elongate and narrow, after crossing 

 each other twice, ending in a ram's-horn curve : scapulars, a.s well 



