PARADISEA,—PHONYGAMA, 449 
An egez of the Great Bird-of-Paradise is of a regular oval 
shape, slightly compressed towards the smaller end, and distinctly 
glossy. ‘lhe ground is salmon-cream-colour, longitudinally streaked 
with burnt sienna and various shades of light and dark hlac-grey, 
the streaks being chietly disposed round the larger half of the 
shell, the pole marked with a few spots only. It measures 1°54 
by 1:08. 
1. Silbattabatta, Wanumbai, Wokan Mrs. E. J. Johnstone [P.}. 
Aru. Is: 12th, Dec (W- 
Goodfellow). 
Paradisea raggiana, Sclater. 
Paradisea raggiana, Sharpe. Cat. Birds B. M. iii. p. 169 (1877) ; Ramsay, 
P.L. 8. N.S. W. viii. p. 26 (1883); Sharpe, Monogr. Paradis. § 
Ptilon. i. p. 48 (1896); td., Hand-l. v. p. 573 (1909) ; Hartert, 
Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 489, pl. x. fig. 8 (1910) ; Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, 1912, 
play pl. i. he. 
Two eggs of the Marquis Raggi’s Bird-of-Paradise are very 
similar to that of P. apoda, but the ground is of rather a deeper 
salmon-cream colour and the longitudinal streaks are rather more 
numerous and confluent at the larger end. ‘They measure 
respectively 1-4 by 1:05; and 1:38 by ‘91. 
1. Kokada, north side of Owen Captain F. R. Barton [P.}. 
Stanley Mts. 
1. Wamai, south side of Owen Captain F. R. Barton [P. j. 
Stanley Mts. 
Genus PHONYGAMA, Lesson, 
Phonygama james3i, Sharpe. 
Phonygama jamesi, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iii. p. 181 (1877); td, 
Hand-l. v. p. 579 (1909) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eversammd. p. 856 (1910). 
Phonygama purpureo-violacea, Meyer, Zettschr. ges. Orn. ii. p. 375 
(1885); Sharpe, Monogr. Paradis. & Ptilon. ii. p. 5 (1894). 
Phonygammus jamesi, Hartert, Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 490, pl. x. fig. 10 
(1910). 
Two eggs believed to be those of James’s Manucode are of a 
regular oval shape, slightly compressed at the smallor end; a third 
egg is much pointed, and all are glossy, The ground differs in 
each specimen, being pinkish-grey, buff tinged with pink, or rather 
bright salmon-buff. All three eggs are marked, mostly towards tlie 
broad end, with short more or less longitudinal streaks or spots of 
reddish-brown and lilac-grey; in the egg with the pinkish-buti 
ground, the markings are rather indistinct and blurred, while in the 
other two specimens the red-brown surface-markings stand out 
rather clearly from the lilac under-markings. 
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