182 PAHADISRID.E. 



16. MANUCODIA. 



Type. 



Mauucodia, Bodd. Tall PL Enl. p. S9 (1783) M. chalybata. 



Range. N. Australia and adjacent islands of the Papuan region. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Head covered with velvety plumes, but not ha\-ing 



any elongated occipital tufts. 



a'. Plumes of the throat and fore neclc oily gTeen, 



crinkled and recirrved. 



a". Plumes of the head velvety, but not curled ; 



bill moderately long, 1-6.5 inch from gape ; 



centre tail-feathers ordinary chalyhata, p. 182. 



b". Plumes of the head strongly curled ; bill very 

 long, 2-2 inches from gape ; two centre tail- 

 feathers recm'ved comrii, p. 18.3. 



h'. Plumes of the throat and fore neck steel-black, 



the latter not crinkled, but apparently with an , , . ■■ no 



edging of velvety black ^ '"• 'j, ■' ' '• ' ' i o < 



° ° •' I jobiensis, p. 184. 



1. Manucodia chalybata. 



Le Chalvb^, Buff. PL Enl. iii. pi. G34; Audeb. et Vieill. Ois. Dor. ii. 



p. 24, pi. 10 ; Levaill. Ois. de Parad. p. 64, pi. 23. 

 Paradisea chalybata, Penn. Faumda Indica in Forst. Zool. Ind. p. 40. 

 Blue-green Paradise-bird, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. p. 482. 

 Manucodia chalybea, Bodd. Tab!. PL EnL p. 39 ; Elliot, Monogr. 



Parad. pi. vi. ; Salvad. Ann. Mas. Civic. Genov. vii. p. 781. 

 Paradisea viridis, Gm. S. N. i. p. 402. 

 Paradisea chalybea, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 197 ; Shaw, Gen. Zool. vii. 



p. 504, pi. 71. 

 Cracticus clialybeus, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. JVat. v. p. 355. 

 Phonygama chalybeus, Less. Traite, p. 344. 

 Phonygama viridis, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 303 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 368 ; 



Rosenb. J. f. O. 1864, p. 122. 

 Chalybea viridis, SchL Mus. P.-B. Coraces, p. 122; id. N. T. D. p. 49. 

 Manucodia chalybeata, Salvad. Ann. 3Itis. Civic. Genov. vii. p. 968 ; 



id. op. cit. i.x. p. 189. 



Aclult male. Head purple, the feathers compressed and close-set, 

 the nape slightly washed with steel-greenish, as also the hinder neck 

 and mantle ; back rich purple, the feathers of the intcrscapulary 

 region rather recurved ; wings and tail rich purple, the inner webs 

 of the feathers blackish, the outer wing-coverts somewhat shaded 

 with steel-black ; sides of the face and sides of the neck deep green, 

 the feathers compressed and velvety like those of the crown ; those 

 of the chin, throat, and fore neck extending onto the sides of the 

 neck, crinkled and curled and of an oily-green colour ; the rest of 

 the under surface deep purple, the feathers being tipped with this 

 colour, less broadly on the vent and under tail-coverts, a few of the 

 abdominal plumes with a slight greenish reflection ; under wing- 

 coverts black, the outer edge of the wing washed with green ; bill 

 and legs black. Total length 14-5 inches, culraen 1'65, wing 6'85, 

 tail 5-9, tarsus 1-55. 



