462 CRASPEDOPHÜRA BRUYNI. 



velvet-black feathers being terminally edged with these colors. 

 The pectoral shield is bordered at its lower end by a narrow 

 pectoral bar of oily green , which color is shading off into 

 the purplish brown of the lower breast. Abdomen , flanks 

 and basal half of the long , lateral tufts purplish brown , 

 the terminal half, thighs and under tail-coverts brownish 

 black , vent and inner vanes of some of the lateral tuft- 

 feathers silky white. The lateral tufts are reaching far 

 beyond the tip of the tail , having a length of 27 cm., the 

 shafts of the tuft-feathers are destitute of barbs on their 

 terminal half, and therefore resemble, though very much 

 weaker and not recurved, in some way the shafts in the 

 flank-tufts of Seleucides niger. Iris red (Bensbach), bill and 

 feet black. Wing 18,5 cm.; tail 8,5; culmen 6,4 ; tarsus 4,4. 



Habitat: Mounts Arfak, N. W, New Guinea. 



This species is, in general appearance and in the shape 

 and size of the bill, closely allied with C. magnifica. 

 From this latter it differs, however, in many essential 

 points. The metallic color on the top of the head is steel- 

 blue and confined to the centre of the crown , while in 

 C. magnifica it is green and covers the whole head and 

 the occiput; the metallic jugular shield is beginning half- 

 way on the throat only instead of at the chin , and is 

 extending farther down on the breast, shading off into a 

 broad glossy purplish cross-bar, which is wanting in C. 

 magnifica^ the feathers of this shield are narrower and the 

 metallic color is spread to a greater extent; the shield has, 

 on account of the peculiar structure of the feathers , a 

 velvety appearance and reminds , to a certain extent , the 

 plumage of Manucodia Comrii, while in G. magnifica the 

 shield is entirely smooth ; the long and very broad lateral 

 shield-feathers remind the terminal feathers in the shield 

 of Seleucides niger, while they are entirely wanting in C. 

 magnifica. Other differences are the white feathers on the 

 vent, the long wire-like shafts of the flank-plumes and 

 the much shorter tail , the central feathers of which are 

 velvety black instead of metallic green; moreover the 



Notes from the Leyden Museura , Vol. XVI. 



