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



Guinea. As regards the shades of coloration now in question, 

 the figures of D. albertisi given by Sclater (P. Z. S. 1873, 

 pi. xlvii.) and Gould (B. New Guin. pt. i. pi. iii. 1875) are 

 of little value. 



10. Craspedophora intercedens, Sharpe. 

 Milne Bay. 



To distinguish between this species and Craspedoyhora 

 magnifica is difficult; the differences are certainly small. It 

 seems that in the male the upper surface, especially on the 

 tertiaries, in a particular light, when the direction of the eye is 

 nearly parallel to the upper surface of the bird, tends rather 

 more to blue than to purple as in C. magnifica ; other obvious 

 differences it is not easy to discover. On the other hand the 

 female differs still more, as Sharpe (Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. 

 xvi. p. 444) has pointed out. Certainly the upper surface is 

 brighter and the eye-stripe is not blackish ; but that the lower 

 surface is different, as Sharpe maintains, is not apparent in the 

 examples from Milne Bay. 



The differences from C. albei'ti are also pointed out by 

 Sharpe, /. c, and those of the female of the last named 

 species agree with the characters given by Salvadori (Orn. 

 Pap. ii. p. 558). The upper surface of C. alberti passes into 

 olive, which is not the case in C. intercedens, although it 

 does not appear to have so much of a chestnut-brown tinge 

 as C. magnifica {cf. Salvadori, op. cit. p. 553). But I do 

 not doubt of the constant difference of the Southern New- 

 Guinea form from those of North-western New Guinea and 

 Australia, although the divergence is small. C. intercede?is, 

 however, seems to approach more nearly to C. magnifica than 

 to C alberti. 



11. Paradisea finschi, Meyer, sp. nov. 



Mas. P. minori similis, sed minor, et dorso, uropygio et 



corpore subtus brunnescentibus : long, rostri 31, tarsi 



40 millim. 



Hab. Nova Guinea septentrionalis-occidentalis, Karan. 



" I obtained only imperfect skins of this species from the 



natives of the north-east coast (Emperor William^s Land) at 



