12. 



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12. PAROTIA. 



Pai;otia, VieiU. N. Diet cT Hist. Nat. xxxi. p. 1(50 (18I9J P.^ellLta. 

 Otostylus, Glof/er, Handh. Naturg. p. 344 (1842)f ...... P. sefilata. 



Range. Confined to New Guinea. 



1. Parotia sefilata. 



Manucode a six filets, Briss. Oni. iii. p. 17. 



Le Sifilet de la Nouvelle Giiinee, Month. PI. Enl. iii. p. 198, pi 633 



Paradisea sefilata, Penn. in Forst. Iml. Zool. p 40 ' P • o-^^- 



proT '^*' ^''''''^^ ^ ^°'°'' ^°''^''' ^"""- ^'"^^ -^''""'' ^'''"'- P- 1^8' 



GoW-breasted Bird of Paradise, Lath. Gen. Sgn. ii. p. 481; id. Gm. 

 Jtist. m. p. iy4, pi. xlvii. 



Paradisea sexpennis, Podd. Tahl. PI. Enl. p. 38; Sahad, Ann. Mm. 

 Civic. Genov. ix. p. 100. 



^^Smn) P^°'"^^^*^' '^'^''^'- -°^^- ^«"«- 'i Flor. Lisuhr. ii. p. 88 {e., 



Paradisea aurea, Gm. S. ^''. i. p. 402 (e.r Lat?i ) 



Pajad.sea sexsetacea^ Zcdh. hid. Orn. i. p. 196 ; Skene, Gen. Zool yii. 



tT'^- f'^T. ''l^"^l ^"'- ^^''^'- "^- P- 909, pl. cxliv. 

 T a '^-n'. /fl ^y^/^'-'- Paradisea, p. 6; Less. Traite, p. 337. 



^W.'i.fl" l6 'll"'^- ^''- ^"■- "■ P- ^^' P^- ^' ^^^«''^^- «^- 

 Parotia sexsetacea,' VicilL K Diet, (rilist. Nat. xxxi. p. 160; id. Gal 



p. 10; tf/. Hist.Jsut. Ois. Parad. p. 172. pis. 10, 11, 11 bis, 12 

 Paradisea aurea, Pp. Con.<<p. i. p. 414 



Parotia am-ea, 6-';Y/y, Z«s< Gen. P. 1840, p. 38 ; Wall. Ibis, 1861 p 037 



Paradisea sexpenuis, Gra,,, P. Z. S. 1861, p. 436 ; Schl.J. f. dl8Ql 



p. 385; td. Mns. P.- P. Coraces, p. 92; id. X. T D iV d 5o' 



Gra;/, Hand-l. P. ii. p. 16. ^ ' ^>. ^. M it. p. oO, 



Parotia sexpenni. Wall. Malay Arch. ii. p. 250; ElUot, Monoar 

 Parad. pl. 10; Savad. Ann. Mas. Ci.ic. benov. k. p.782 ; GoZ', 



^fZ«70Ha7^. General colour above rich purplish velvety black in- 

 cluding the wings and tail; plumes of head and neck also close-set 

 and velvety, purphsh black like the back; above the ear- coverts a 

 tuft of elongated silky hair-like plumes, from among the anterior 

 ones of which spring three thread-Uke shafts on either side of the 

 head, each ornamented with an ovate racket of velvety black • frontal 

 plumes pu.3,lish the feathers tipped with shining white, which forms 

 a band across the forehead, these stifi" plumes being capable of de 

 pression forwards nearly to the tip of the bill ; across the upper crown 

 a band of brilliant metallic plumes, the centre ones bright -rer 

 with a double subterminal bar of purple and blue, the outemost 

 ones somewhatjnore shining with metallic purple and lilac ; throat 

 velvety purplish black, the lower throat and fore neck forming a 

 brdhant metalhc shield, composed of golden-copper feathers, .shinfn' 



^elvet^ black; rest of under surface of body glossy black, on each 



