some new Paradise-birds. 255 



back long, loose, satiny black, beneath greenish blue. Side- 

 feathers of the hinder neck lengthened and erectile. 



This species has been named by Finsch Paradisornis 

 rudolphi, in honour of his Imperial and Royal Highness 

 Rudolph, Crown-Prince of Austria, the high and mighty 

 protector of ornithological researches over the whole world. 



14. DiPHYLLODES CHRYSOPTERA, Gould. 



Mas. Mari D. magnificoi similis, sed alis supra pulchre auran- 

 tiacis et interscapulio brunnescenti-sanguineo diversus. 



Hab. Nova Guinea merid.-orientalis. 



This species was separated from D. magnifica by Gould 

 upon examples of unknown origin. But subsequently it was 

 supposed that its habitat had been ascertained to be Jobi 

 {cf. Salvadori, Orn. Pap. ii. p. 641), until Sharpe (Jo am. 

 Linn. Soc, Zool. xvi. p. 444) announced that he had com- 

 pared GoukVs types with examples from Southern New 

 Guinea, and found them to be perfectly identical. He thus 

 raised the question whether Jobi birds agree altogether with 

 GoukVs types and with specimens from Southern New Guinea. 

 Examples from Jobi now lie before us, and are not identical 

 with those from Southern New Guinea. GoukVs types were 

 certainly from Southern New Guinea, and to the species 

 from that country the name chrysoptera must therefore 

 belong, whilst the Jobi bird must be separated. It is true 

 that GoukVs figure does not agree with examples from 

 Southern New Guinea, as Salvadori has already pointed out, 

 but Sharpens decision as to the full identity of GoukVs types 

 with specimens from this locality settles the question. 



D. chrysoptera differs from D. magnifica not only in the 

 bright orange-yellow colour of its wings, as given by Sharpe 

 (Cat. Birds, iii. p. 175), but also in the blood-red colour of 

 the hind neck-feathers, which in D. magnifica are only chest- 

 nut-brown or dark brownish red. Besides, the colour of the 

 head, which in D. magnifica is brownish, is light orange- 

 brown in D. chrysoptera, and the colour of the belly is bright 

 purple, whereas in D. magnifica it has but a trace of this 

 colour, and the breast-shield is more of a blue-green than 



