178 ON NEW-GUINEA BIRDS. 



Diphyllodes sp. ind. 



A bird of paradise in the female plumage, belonging to 

 the genus Diphyllodes. This bird does not agree with any 

 of the known birds of paradise. It much resembles the 

 female of Diphyllodes magnificus, is however a little smaller 

 and the upper surface is brown without any olive tinge, 

 the under surface buff white, barred across with brown ; 

 the throat is white, very narrowly barred with brown. 

 The feathers down the centre of the breast are more clearly 

 barred. Tail and quills are dark brown, the inner secondaries 

 with reddish brown outer and pale ochraceous inner margins. 



The specimen measures: wing 104, tail 68, tarso-metat. 

 30 and culmen 16 mm. 



The bird seems to me to be a young one of Diphyllodes 

 magnificus or of D. gulielmi III. Dr. Hartert, who was so 

 kind to compare the specimen with the splendid collection 

 of birds of paradise in the Tring Museum, writes me : 

 » Den Paradiesvogel können wir nicht bestimmen. Er scheint 

 zu keiner (ler bekannten Arten zu gehören und ist viel- 

 leicht ein 9 juv. einer noch unbekannten Art." 



Paradisea minor Shaw. 



Paradisea papuana, Schlegel, Cat. Coraces, 1867, p. 82. 

 Pai'adisea minor (typica), Rothschild, Tierr. Paradis. 

 1898, p. 40. 



One egg. — This egg has been sent to Utrecht by the 

 late Woelders, who assured Mr. Jens, that the collector 

 saw fly away from the nest, in which this egg was laying, 

 a female Paradisea minor. 



The groundcolour is cream-coloured grey. All the markings 

 are longitudinal streaks from 1 to 20 mm. long and from 

 0.5 to 2 mm. broad, the underlying streaks are cinereous, 

 those of the surface dark and lighter umberbrown. Here 

 and there are small spots of a grey and of a brown colour 

 between the streaks. 



Notes from the Leyden IMuseiim, Vol. XXIX. 



