some new Paradise-birds. 241 



Besides this first portion treating of the Paradise-birds col- 

 lected, a second paper will be given devoted to birds of other 

 families. We also take this opportunity of mentioning a few 

 species which Finsch obtained from the English collector, 

 McCormac, during his visit to Milne Bay, and which are 

 from the coast-district, no collector in this neighbourhood 

 having yet penetrated into the interior. 



A Paradise-bird obtained in exchange from the natives on 

 the previously unvisited north-east coast of Kaiser- Wilhelms- 

 land has also turned out to be a new species {Paradisea 

 finschi). Lastly, we take this opportunity of mentioning 

 some species belonging to the same district which were 

 obtained by Meyer in his former journey on the coast of the 

 Bay of Geelvink. 



Among the nineteen species of Paradise-birds mentioned 

 in this memoir, six appear to be new to science, and amongst 

 these are two of new genera, Astrarchia and Paradisorriis. 

 Besides this, we have been able to describe the hitherto 

 unknown females of two species, Parotia lawesi and Lopho- 

 rhina minor, as also the hitherto unknown and splendid 

 male of one species, Amblyornis subalaris. All these, except 

 Paradisea finschi, of Kaiser- Wilhelmsland, come from Horse- 

 shoe Mountain. 



Lastly, during the necessary comparisons, we have felt 

 constrained to separate an already known species of Paradise- 

 bird from the island of Jobie as Diphyllodes jobiensis, and a 

 hitherto overlooked species from the south of the Bay of 

 Geelvink as Manucodia rubiensis. 



Berlin and Dresden, November 1885. 



1. Manucodia chalybeata. 



Examples of this species from the coast of Milne Bay, 

 opposite the Killerton Islands, agree very well with spe- 

 cimens from Andai, Passim, and Inwiorage, on the Bay 

 of Geelvink {Meyer), except that in the former the neck- 

 feathers seem to be more brilliantly coloured and are alto- 

 gether rather more bluish. 



