178 PARADISEXD^. 



side of the breast the plumes elongated into two lax velvety shields ; 

 bill and legs black ; " iris light blue, with a circle of pale yellowish 

 green colour " (D'Albertis). Total length 12-5 inches, culmen 1-3, 

 wing 6-1, tail 5-25, tarsus 2'1. 



Ifab. The same as that of the genus. 



a. Ad. St. New Guinea. Purchased. 



b. Ad. sk. New Guinea. Purchased. 



13. SEMIOPTERA. r^ p^ 



Semioptera, Grat/, P. Z. S. 18.59, p. 130 S. wallacii. 



Range. Confined to the islands of Batchian and Halmahera or 

 GUolo. 



1 . Semioptera wallacii. 



Paradisea wallacii. Gray, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 130 ; Schl. 3Ius. P.-B. 



Coraces, p. 385. 

 Semioptera wallacii, Wall. Ibis, 1859, p. 210, note, 1860, p. 61 ; Scl. 



Ibis, 1860, p. 26, pi. 2 ; Gray. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 355 ; Gould, B. 



Austr. Suppl. pi. 3; Posenb. J. f. O. 1864, p. 125; Wall. Malay 



Arch. ii. p. 17; Elliot, Monogr. Parnd. pi. 18; Salvad. Ann. Mus. 



Civic. Genov. vii. p. 785, ix. p. 190. 

 Epimachus wallacii, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 105. 



Adult male. General colour above brown, shaded with purple 

 uuder certain lights, the shafts whity brown ; scapulars dark brown ; 

 wings rather paler than the back, especially on the outer coverts, 

 the quills whitish at tip, the shafts also whitish ; from the middle 

 of the least wing-coverts two long whitish plumes, ending in an 

 elongate spatula ; tail rather lighter brown than the back, with 

 white shafts ; nasal plumes pale fulvous brown, slightly erect and 

 recurved ; crown pale metallic greyish lilac ; lores, sides of face, 

 sides of neck, and hinder part of the latter pale brown, with a 

 purplish lilac gloss, only visible under a change of light ; cheeks 

 and throat light brown, mottled with metallic green edgings to the 

 feathers, becoming more uniform on the lower throat, and gradually 

 merging in a triangular shield of green, embracing the lower throat 

 and fore neck, and produced into two long tufts of brilliant metallic 

 green feathers, reaching down each side of the breast to the level of 

 the thighs ; chest-feathers light brown, fringed with metallic green ; 

 breast brown, washed with metallic green ; sides of body, abdomen, 

 thighs, and under wing- and tail-coverts light brown, paler on the 

 thighs ; " bill horny olive ; feet orange, claws horny ; iris deep 

 olive " ( Wallace). Total length 11-5 inches, culmen 1-65, wing 0-15, 

 tail 3"4, tarsus 1*7. 



Adult female. General colour above and below brown, slightly 

 glossed with purple, the quills whitish externally and at tip ; nasal 

 plumes and frontal feathers sandy buff; crown of head and nape 

 glossed with dull purplish ; sides of face and throat lighter brown 

 than the back ; no green gloss on any part of the plumage ; pectoral 

 shield and standard plumes of wing absent. Total length 11 "6 

 inches, culmen 1-45, wing 5*55, tail 4, tarsus 1-6. 



