448 PAR,\T)TSETT).T,. 



consirlerable amoiinh of gloss. They aro of a, creamy-huff colour, 

 sparingly marked with broad, longitudinal streaks, some of which 

 are slate-colour and others of two shades of chestnut-brown. There 

 are also a few spots and specks of a rufous colour scattered over 

 the shell. The specimens measure respectively : 1-28 by 'SO ; 

 1-26 by -9. 



2. Cape York, N. Australia {TI. Dudley Le Souef, Esq. [E.]. 

 Barnard). 



Cxenus ASTEAPTA, Fleill. 

 Astrapia stephaniae, Finsch 4" Mei/er. 



Astrarchia stephanifp, Fi/hsch & Mei/er, Zpifsch. qes. Orii. ii. p. 378 

 (188o); S/iarpe, Mo)im/r. Paradm. i^- Ptilon. p. 43, pi. xx. (1891); 

 id., Hand-l. V. p. 572 (1909). 



Astrapia stephaniffi, ? Hartert, Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 488, pi. x. tig. 8 (1910) ; 

 Ogil lie- Grant, Ibis, 1912, p. 114, pi. iii. fig. 3. 



An egg of Princess Stephanie's Bird-of-Paradise is of a regular 

 and rather elongate oval shape and is less glossy than eggs of 

 Paradisea apoda and P. Ta(jgiana. The ground is bnff tinged W'ith 

 salmon-colour, and the longitudinal markings are mostly concentrated 

 in two large patches on the broader half of the egg : besides these, 

 there are numerous largo and small spots scattered over the rest of 

 the shell. The shell-markings are vandyke-brown and burnt-sienna 

 and the underlying markings, which are few, large and all disposed 

 longitudinally, are dull lavender-grey. It measures l-()5 by 1*1. 



1. (Laid in captivity) Owen F. .1. Brook, Esq. [R]. 



Stanley Mts., l-Jth Ausf. 

 {W. Goodfello7i^). 



The egg figured by Dr. Hartert {op. cit.\ and taken by A. 

 S. Anthony in the Owen Stanley Mountains, 8000 ft., is much 

 smaller than the one described above, which was laid in Mr. Brook's 

 Aviary at Hoddam Castle. The former has possibly been wrongly 

 identified, and is indistinguishable from eggs of P. raf/i/iana found 

 in the same district, but seldom met with above an altitude of 

 .'■iOOO ft. Mr. Brook's bird laid two other eggs quite similar to the 

 one described above. 



Genus PAEADISEA, Linn. 



Paradisea apoda, Linn. 



Paradisea apoda, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iii. p. 166 (1877) ; Meyer, 

 Zeitschr. f/cs. Orn. i. p. 293, pi. xvii. fig. 2 (1884) ; Sharpe,Monnqr. 

 Paradi^.'^- PtiloiK i. p. 45 (1891 >; id.. Hand-l. v. p. 572 (1909); 

 Goodfellow, Avicult. Mai/. (3) i. p. 283 (1910) ; 0<jilrie-Grant, Ibis, 

 1912, p. 113, pi. iii. fig. 2. 



