130 NEOPARAÜISEA. RUYSI. 



nearly twice as long; the fourth, which is the longest, is 

 20 mm. longer than the second, the third 3 mm. shorter 

 than the fourth. The webs of the secondaries are somewhat 

 broadened. 



Chin and throat are black with a purplish-green gloss ; 

 fore-neck and breast blackish brown with a purplish blue 

 gloss, each feather of the breast fan -shaped at its end 

 and of a brownish colour with a glossy purplish blue 

 margin ; belly and under tailcoverts blackish brown, the 

 latter with lighter centres. At each side of the body there 

 is a tuft of loose feathers of a sooty brown colour with some 

 whitish brown barbs at the distal end ; these flankplumes 

 do not reach the end of the wing. The feathers of the 

 forehead are greenish black; those of the head and neck 

 are short and thickset as in Paradisea and they are brownish 

 yellow with small greenish black margins. The feathers 

 of the hind-neck and back are elongated, in appearance 

 like those of the back of P. minor^ but of a bright orange 

 brown colour; the rump and upper tailcoverts are olive 

 brown, the tail is dusky brown with some purplish gloss, 

 The wings are also dusky brown, the secondaries having 

 an orange brown margin along the outer web and a sand- 

 coloured margin along the inner web. On the upper surface 

 the wings show, like the tail, a purplish blue shine. 



The legs are dull bluish black. 



The measurements are in mm.: wing 150; tail 90, two 

 central feathers 360 ; length of the lower jaw (the upper 

 one is damaged) 32 ; tarso-metatarsus 42. 



The bird was collected in August or September 1905 by 

 Papuan hunters near Warsembo on the westcoast of the 

 Geelvink Bay, opposite the island of Amberpoon, Dutch 

 New Guinea. 



Leyden Museum, 28 April 1906. 



Notes f'roixx tlie Leyden IMuseutu, "Vol. XXVIII. 



