16. MANUCODli. 183 



Obs. The British-Museum series shows that immature birds are 

 much duller than the adult, and greener on the head and on the 

 underparts ; the feathers of the throat are oily green, but are not 

 crinkled as in the adult. This peculiar conformation of the throat- 

 plumes is evidently only acquired by age. 



Hab. North-western New Guinea. 



<i,b- c? $ ad. St. Dorey, New Guinea. A. R. Wallace, Esq. 



c. cj ad. sk. Dorey, New Guinea. A. R. "Wallace, Esq. 



d. Ad. sk. New Guinea. Purchased. 

 e,f,ff. Juv. sk. New Guinea. Purchased. 



2. Manucodia comrii. 



Manucodia comrii, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 459, pi. xlii. ; Salvad. 

 Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. ix. p. 189. 



Adult (type of species). General colour above metallic steel-green, 

 somewhat shaded with purplish round the eyes, the entire head 

 adorned with a large crest of cmied and crinkled feathers, the dorsal 

 feathers also all slightly curled ; wings and tail metaUic steel-green, 

 with somewhat of a purplish gloss, the two centre tail-feathers re- 

 curved at their ends ; feathers of the throat, chest, and sides of the 

 neck steel-green, all of them crinkled and recurred, giving a velvety 

 texture to the whole of these parts ; remainder of the under surface 

 rich purple, all the feathers recurved, and most of them showing a 

 subterminal gloss of violet or steel-green ; thighs and under wing- 

 and tail-coverts entirely steel-green. Total length 17 inches, culmen 

 2-4, wing 9-7, tail 7*-4, tarsus 2. (Mus. Lord Tweeddale.) 



Hab. Huon Gulf, S.E. New Guinea. 



Obs. Dr. Sclater writes {1. c.) : — " This is by far the finest and 

 largest of the peculiar genus now generally termed Manucodia 

 (formerly Phon>/c/ama) yet discovered. It is immediately distin- 

 guishable from M. cJudi/baa and M. atra by its much larger size 

 and longer bill, which is deeply sulcated at the nostrils. The cha- 

 racteristic curling of the feathers is extended to a greater degree 

 than in M. chalybeia, and pervades the whole of the head and neck. 

 The feathers of the abdomen are black at the base, broadly margined 

 with purple." 



3. Manucodia atra. 



Phonygama atra, Lesson, Voy. Coquille, i. p. G38; id. Traite, p. .344; 



Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 303. 

 Manucodia atra, Gray, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 158, 18pl, p. 436 ; id. Hand-l. 



B. ii. p. 17; Elliot, Monogr. Parad. pi. vii. ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. 



Civic. Genov. vii. p. 781 ; id. ^- D' Albert, t. c. p. 829 ; Salvad. op. 



cit. Lx. pp. 40, 189. 



Adult male. Head all round covered with compressed velvety 

 plumes, steel-green without any purple reflections ; the neck all 

 round greenish like the head, the plumes slightly recurved and 

 glistening with metallic endings ; general colour of upper surface 

 steel-black, shaded, according to the light, with metallic reflections 

 of greenish or purple ; wings and tail purple, with steel-black shades 



