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TATtADIsEi. PnONVGAMA. 449 



An c^>x of tlie Great liiid-of-l'araili.se is of a regular oval 

 pliapo, slij^htlj' com])ressc(l towards tho smaller cnri, and distinctly 

 glossy. Tho ground is salraon-cream-colour, longitudinally streaked 

 with burnt sienna and vai'ious shades of light and dark lilac-grey, 

 the streaks being chiefly disposed round the larger half of the 

 shell, the pole marked with a few spots only. It measures 1-54 

 by 1-U8. 



1. Silbattabatta, Wanunibai, Wokan Mrs. E. J. Johi.stone [P. "I. 

 I., Am Is., linii Dec. ( Tf. 

 Goodfelluw). 



Paradisea raggiana, Sdakr. 



J^aradisea raggiana, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iii. p. 169 (1877) ; liaiitsa;/, 

 P. L. S. A'. S. W. viii. p. 26 (1883); Sharpe, Munoqr. Paradis. i.y 

 Ptilon. i. p. 48 (18'J6) ; id., Hand-l. v. p. 573 (1909); Ilartert, 

 Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 489, pi. x. tig. 3 (1910) ; Of/ilrie-Grant, Ibis, 19lL^ 

 p. 114, pi. iii. fig. 1. 



Two eggs of the Marquis Eaggi's Bird-of-Paradise are very 

 similar to that of P. apoda, but the ground is of rather a deeper 

 salmon-cream colour and the longitudinal streaks are rather more 

 numerous and confluent at the larger end. They measuio 

 respectively 1-4 by l-UC) ; and 1-3S by 'Dl. 



1. Koicada, north side of Owen Captain F. 11. Barton [P. J. 



Stanley Mts. 

 1. Wamai, south side of Owen Captain F. II. Barton [P.]. 



Stanley Mts. 



Genus PHONYGAMA, Lesson. 



Phonygama jame^i, Sharpe. 



Phonvgama jaraesi, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iii. p. ISl (1877): id., 

 Hand-l. V. p. 579 (1909) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamitd. p. 356 (1910). 



Phonygama purpureo-violacea, Mei/er, Zeitsehr. yes. Orn. ii. p. 375 

 (1885) ; Sharpe, Monogr. Paradis. i^- Ptilon. ii. p. 5 (1894). 



PLonvgammus janiesi, Hartert, Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 490, pi. x. lig. 10 

 (1910). 



Two eggs believed to be those of James's Manucodo are of a 

 regular oval shape, slightly compressed at the smaller end ; a third 

 egg is much pointed, and all are glossy, Tho ground differs in 

 each specimen, being pinkish-grey, l)utf tinped with j)ink, or rather 

 bright salmon-buff. All three eggs are marked, mostly towards tiio 

 broad end, with short more or less longitudinul streaks or sjiots of 

 reddish-brown and lilac-grey; in the egg with the pinkish-buff 

 ground, the markings are rather indistinct and blurred, while in the 

 other tvv'o specimens tho red-brown surface-markings stand out 

 rather clearly from the lilac uuder-mai kings. 



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