180 PARADISEIDJ3. 



entire throiit deep copporj' bronze ; on the fore neck and breast a 

 pectoral shield of bright metallic green plumes, most of which have 

 a narrow edging of copper ; remainder of under surface purplish 

 black. Total length 9 inches, culmen 1-15, wing 4-55, tail 3-6. 



Adult female. Above deep chocolate-brown, the feathers of the 

 top and sides of the head blackish brown ; over the ej'e a few white- 

 spotted plumes ; wing-coverts and quills blackish brown, externally 

 reddish ; tail brown, externally dull rufous brown ; throat white, 

 all the feathers being black tipped with white ; rest of the under 

 surface buflfj- white, inclining to rufous on the flanks and under tail- 

 coverts, the whole under surface barred across with dull brown ; 

 under wing-coverts rufous, barred across with brown. Total length 

 8-8 inches, culmen 1-05, wing 5-1, taU 4, tarsus TS. 



Hab. New Guinea. 



a. cJ ad. St. New Guinea. 



b. $ ad. sk. Atam, Dec. 10, 1875. Purchased. 



15. PHONYGAMA. 



Type. 



Plionygaiiia, Less. Voy. Coqiii/h', i. p. 6Sii (1826) P. keraudreni. 



Chalybeus, Cuvier, Reyn. Aiiim. i. p. 354 (1829) P. keraudreni. 



Range. New Guinea and North Australia. 



Key to the S2)ecies. 



a. Wings externally purple. 



a '. General colour above and below ; burnished 



steel-blue, verging somewhat towards a purple 



tinge keraudreni, p. 18U. 



b'. General colom' above and below burnished 



green , jamesii, p. 181. 



b. Wings externally green, like the rest of the upper 



and imder surface goiddi, p. 181. 



1. Phony gama keraudreni. 



Phonygaraa keraudreni, Less. Voy. Coquille, Ois. i. p. 636; id. Man. 



d'Orn. i. p. 141 ; Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 303; Bp. Consp. i. p. 368 ; 



Rosenb. J.f. O. 1804, p. 123. 

 Barita keraudi-eni, Less. Voy. Coquille, Ois. Atlas, pi, 13. 

 Chalybeus coruutus, Cuv. R'eyn. Anini. i. p. 354 (1829) ; Gould in 



Voy. Rattlesnake, ii. j). 357. 

 Pliouygama lessouia, Sioains. Classif. B. ii. p. 264. 

 Manucodia keraudreni. Gray, P. Z.'S. 1859, p. 158, 1861, p. 436; id. 



Handr-l. B. ii. p. 17 ; Elliot, Monogr. Parad. pi. viii. ; Salvad. Ann. 



Mus. Civic. Gvnov. vii. p. 781 ; id. op. cit. ix. p. 189 ; Scl. Ibis, 1876, 



p. 252. 

 Chalybeus keraudreni, Schl. 3Ius. P.-B. Ooraces, p. 120. 



Adult male. General colour burnished steel-blue, the feathers of 

 the crown velvety in texture, as well as those of the sides of the face 

 and chin ; from the occiput two long tufts of steel-blue feathers ex- 

 tend ; the plumes of the hind neck and throat also lanceolate ; under 



