244 Drs. O. Finsch and A. B. Meyer on 



form uot a broad but a narrow plaque, and their tips 

 converge in the middle into a straight line running back- 

 wards ; the plaque is narrowed and prolonged behind^ where 

 it passes into a dark olive-brown. The neck-shield is of a 

 uniform steel-blue with violet nuance, instead of green and 

 blue. The vinous-red silky tinge of the upper surface is 

 absent ; its hue is much paler. The shortness of the tail is 

 also especially noteworthy : in P. sexpennis it measures 130- 

 135 milUm., in P. lawesi only 84-88 millim. ; so that the 

 female and young male of P. lawesi have a longer tail than 

 the adult male. 



6. LOPHORINA MINOR. 



Lophorina superba minor, Hamsay, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S.W. 

 X. p. 24.2(1885). 



Mr. Ramsay has described the male of this new species 

 from South-eastern New Guinea. The female was unknown 

 to him. 



Fern. Similis feminse L. superba, sed supra olivaceo-brunnea, 

 minor, et taenia superciliari in occipite confluente, varie- 

 gata, distinguenda : long, tota 220, ake 120, caudae 

 80, rostri culm. 21, rostr. hiatus 30, tarsi 28 millim. 



The measurements of the female of L. superba are '^ wing 

 125, tail 95-100 millim.^^ The head and neck are black in 

 L. minor as in L. superba, but L. minor has on each side a 

 broad superciliary stripe of white-spotted feathers which 

 unite at the nape. In L. superba only slight indications of 

 this superciliary stripe are perceptible behind the eyes. In 

 L. minor the face and sides of the neck are spotted like the 

 throat, in L. superba these parts are black. The lower 

 surface of L. minor seems somewhat more yellowish than in 

 L. superba, and the back, the smaller wing-coverts, and the 

 tertials as well as the tail are olive-brown instead of dark 

 chestnut-brown. The outer edges of the secondaries are 

 broad and rusty brown in L. minor, in L. superba they are 

 narrower and brown, and the inner Avebs of the wiug- 

 feathers beneath are broad and bright rusty brown, instead 

 of being imiform blackish brown. Thus the females of the 

 two species are quite distinct. 



