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considerable amount of gloss. They are of a creamy-buff colour, 
sparingly marked with broad, longitudinal streaks, some of which 
are slate-colour and others of two shades of chestnut-brown. There 
are also a few spots and specks of a rufous colour scattered over 
the shell. The specimens measure respectively: 1:28 by °89; 
1:26 by 9. 
2. Cape York, N. Australia (H. Dudley Le Souéf, Esq. [E.}. 
Barnard). 
Genus ASTRAPTIA, Vicill. 
Astrapia stephanie, /insch §- Meyer. 
Astrarchia stephanie, Finsch & Meyer, Zeitsch. ges. Orn. ii. p. 378 
(1885); Sharpe, Monogr. Paradis. § Ptilon. p. 48, pl. xx. (1894); 
ad., Hand-l. v. p. 572 (1909). 
Astrapia stephanie, ? Hartert, Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 488, pl. x. tig. 8 (1910) ; 
Ogilvie- Grant, Tbis, 1912, p. 114, pl. iii. fig. 3. 
An egg of Princess Stephanie’s Bird-of-Paradise is of a regular 
and rather elongate oval shape and is less glossy than eggs of 
Paradisea apoda and P. raggiana. The ground is buff tinged with 
salmon-colour, and the longitudinal markings are mostly concentrated 
in two large patches on the broader balf of the egg: besides these, 
there are numerous large and small spots scattered over the rest of 
the shell. The shell-markings are vandyke-brown and burnt-sienna 
and the underlying markings, which are few, large and all disposed 
longitudinally, are dull lavender-grey. It measures 1°65 by 1-1. 
1. (Laid in captivity) Owen F. J. Brook, Esq. { P.]. 
Stanley Mts., 14th Aug. 
(W. Goodfellow). 
The egg figured by Dr. Hartert (op. cit.), and taken by A. 
S. Anthony in the Owen Stanley Mountains, 8000 ft., is much 
smaller than the one described above, which was laid in Mr. Brook’s 
Aviary at Hoddam Castle. The former has possibly been wrongly 
identified, and is indistinguishable from eges of P. raqggiana found 
in the same district, but seldom met with above an altitude of 
3000 ft. Mr. Brook’s bird laid two other eggs quite similar to the 
one described above. 
Genus PARADISEA, Linn. 
Paradisea apoda, Linn. 
Paradisea apoda, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. 111. p. 166 (1877); Meyer, 
Zeitschr. ges. Orn. i, p. 293, pl. xvii. fig. 2 (1884) ; Sharpe, Monogr. 
Paradis. § Ptilon. i. p. 45 (1891); td., Hand-l. v. p. 572 (1909) ; 
Goodfellow, Avicult. Mag. (5) 1. p. 285 (1910); Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, 
1912) p. 113, plasm. fet: 
