186 



I'ARADISEID^. 



what glistening ; tail black, the feathers slightly washed with green 

 on the outer wob ; quills blackish brown, the least wing-coverts 

 edged with dull green like the scapulars, the rest of the coverts and 

 secondaries slightly washed with green on the outer web, the pri- 

 maries much paler brown ; bill and feet black. Total length 13'5 

 inches, culmen l"9o, wing 7-75, tail 6-75, tarsus 1-9. 

 Hab. Moluccas : Obi group. 



a. Ad. sk. Obi Islands. Br. Benistein [C.]. 



3. Lycocorax morotensis. 



Lvcocorax morotensis, Bernst. J. f. 0. 18G4, p. 408 ; ScJil. Bis, 1863, 



"p. 120; id. N. T. D. iii. p. 192"; id. Mus. P.-B. Coraces, p. 1.32. 

 Manucodia mortiensis, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 17 (lapsii). 



Adult. General colour black above and below, the wings brown, 

 the primaries lighter than the secondaries and having the base of 

 the inner web conspicuously white ; tail black, shaded with dull 

 green on the outer web ; bill and feet black. Total length 17 

 inches, culmen 2, wing 8-4, tail 7, tarsus 2. 



Hah. Morty Island (Morotai). 



a, h, c. Ad. sk. Morty Island. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



18. XANTHOMELUS. 



Type. 

 Xanthomelus, Bp. Ann. Sci. Nat. Zool. (4), i. p. 122 (1854) X. aureus. 



Eange. Confined to New Guinea. 



1. Xanthomelus aureus. 



Golden Bu-d of Paradise, Edicai-ds, Birds, iii. p. 112. 



Oriolus aureus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 16.3 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 29.3. 



Paradisea aurea, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 195. 



Le Paradis orange, Audeh. et VieiU. Ois. Dor. ii. p. 26, pis. 11, 12. 



Le Loriot de Paradis, Levaill. Ois. Parad. i. pis. 18, 19. 



Paradisea aurantia, Shaw, Gen. Zool. vii. p. 499, pi. 68. 



Lopborhina aurantia, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiv. p. 76. 



Sericulus aurantiacus. Less. Traite, p. .339 ; id. Ois. Parad. Syn. p. 20 ; 



id. H. X. p. 201, pis. 2o bis, 2-5 ter. 

 Sericulus aureus, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 232; Bp. Consp. i. p. 349; 



Gray, P. Z. S. 1861, p. 435; Wall. Ibis, 1861, p. 287; id. P. Z. S. 



1862, p. 160; id. Malay Arch. ii. p. 257; Schl. Mus. P.-B. Co- 

 races, p. 98; Scl. Ibis, 1876, p. 248. 

 Xanthomelus aureus, Bp. C. B. xxxviii. p. 538 ; Elliot, Ibis, 1872, 



p. 112; id. Monoyr. Parad. pi. 15; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. 



vii. p. 783; id. op. cit. ix. p. 192. 

 Sericulus xantbogaster, Schl. N. T. D. iv. p. 50 ; Salvad. Ibis, 1876, 



p. 267 ; id. Atti R. Accacl. Torino, xi. p. 688. 

 Cblamydodera xantbogastra, Elliot, Ibis, 1872, p. 113 ; id. Monogr. 



Parad. pi. xxxiii. ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1873, p. 097. 



Adult male. General colour above fiery orange-red, the head 

 crested, the back with a large dorsal shield ; scapulars as well as the 



