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wings more pronounced than in the specimen described above, 

 and also has the centres of the blackish feathers on the lower 

 back dull bronze. This species is allied to the well-known 

 Chalcophaps chrysochlora, from which it may be distinguished by 

 the lilac-mauve colour of the head, hind-neck, and upper back, 

 the more pronounced bronze colour of the wings, and the larger 

 white shoulder-patch. 



Gould's vernacular name of Little Green Pigeon for Chalco- 

 phaps chrysochlora is not quite correct, for its wings only are 

 green. It would also be incorrect to call Chalcophaps occidentalis 

 the Western Green-winged Pigeon, for its wings are more of a 

 bronze colour than green ; I purpose, therefore, to distinguish it 

 vernacularly by the name of the Lilac-mantled Pigeon. 



NOTE ON GRANT'S BIRD OF PARADISE, PARADISE A 

 GRANT I, North. 



By Alfred J. North, C.M.Z.S., Ornithologist Australian 



Museum, Sydney. 

 {Read before the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, 18th Nov., 1907.) 

 A SECOND specimen of Paradisea granti, orginally described by 

 me in the Victorian Naturalist* has recently been lent me for 

 examination. Like the type, it is a native-prepared skin, and 

 was obtained, Mr. Grant informs me, at one of the German New 

 Guinea ports (probably Frederick-Wilhelmshafen). 



The skin is that of a fine old adult male, exhibiting the 

 characteristic reddish-orange-coloured flank plumes of the type, 

 but the metallic-green feathers extend lower down the throat, 

 almost meeting the rich vinous-brown, velvety plumage of the 

 fore-neck and upper breast. The latter, too, are longer, which is 

 probably due to age, as is also the greater extent of metallic- 

 green feathers on the throat; found also in very old birds of 

 Paradisea raggiana. 



Grant's Bird of Paradise is a very distinct species, and may be 

 easily distinguished by its reddish-orange flank plumes. It is 

 anticipated that a specimen will shortly be forwarded to London, 

 to be figured. 



" From Range to Sea " is the title of a charming series of 

 essays from the pen of Mr. Charles Barrett, dealing mainly with 

 bird-life, which have the advantage of being daintily illustrated 

 with pictures, mostly from the camera of Mr. A. H. E. Mattingley. 

 The little volume is well printed, and should be in every nature 

 lover's collection. 



*Vict. Nat., vol. xxii., p. 156, January, 1906. 



