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brown, washed with straw colour, barely visible on the latter 

 except on the edges of the outer webs of the secondaries ; tail 

 chestnut-brown, the two centre feathers greatly elongated and 

 passing on their terminal portion into bare thread-like shafts ; 

 crown of head, neck, and a collar on the lower throat rich straw 

 colour, slightly paler on the latter ; base of forehead, lores, cheeks, 

 and throat metallic-green ; chin velvety-black, dull metallic-green 

 in certain lights ; foreneck and upper breast very dark vinous- 

 brown, the plumage, although stiffened, is of a rich velvety 

 texture ; remainder of the under surface, thighs, and under tail 

 coverts vinous-brown ; elongated flank plumes reddish-orange, 

 paler on their apical portion and passing into a dull or a very 

 faint orange-white on their long attenuated tips, the side plumes 

 being shorter, and some of them dark blood-red on their apical 

 portion ; shafts of the plumes orange, their basal portion golden- 

 yellow, and paler at their extreme base ; bill bluish horn-colour ; 

 legs and feet (of skin) brown. Total length, 14 inches; wing, 

 7 inches ; tail, 6 inches ; the two centre elongated tail feathers, 

 20 inches ; longest flank plumes, 19 inches; exposed portion of 

 bill, 1.25 inches; tarsus, 1.6 inches. 



Habitat. — German New Guinea (?). 



Type. — In the Australian Museum, Sydney. 



Remarks. — Paradisea granti is closely allied to Paradisea 

 intermedia, De Vis, and Paradisea augusta-victorio'., Cabanis. 

 All bear a strong resemblance one to another on the upper parts, 

 and in tlie upper aspect of the flank plumes, P. intermedia being 

 slightly richer and darker. The average measurements of the three 

 species are almost similar. On the under parts P. intermedia has 

 the flank plumes crimson, in P. augusta-victorioi they are golden 

 orange, and in P. granti they are a reddish-orange, the yellow 

 collar on the lower throat also being broader than in either of the 

 preceding species. The colour of the flank plumes in P. granti 

 is almost similar to that of the crest plumes of the adult 

 male of the Orange-crested Bower-bird, Amblyornis subalaris, 

 Sharpe, of New Guinea; if anything, they have a slightly 

 more pronounced reddish shade. Of the bird described 

 here under the name of Paradisea granti being a distinct 

 species there can be no question. My only doubt is that 

 so large and an attractive species could have so long escaped 

 observation and description. The latter, so far, however, I have 

 been unable to discover. On reading Dr. Cabanis's original 

 diagnosis of Paradisea augnsta- victor ice, copied by Count Sal- 

 vadori into his Supplement to " Ornitologia della Papuasia e delle 

 Molucche,"* wherein it is stated the flank plumes are reddish- 



* Part III., p. 241 (1891). 



