548 PASSERIFORMES CHAP. 
patch crosses the forehead ; the occiput is green, blue, and purple, 
having two lateral tufts, from each of which spring three wires 
terminating in small black 
discs; while large, soft, erec- 
tilemasses of black adorneach 
side of the body. Semioptera 
wallacit, the Standard-wing, 
is mouse-coloured, with some- 
what bronzy back and violet 
head; the pectoral feathers 
have green edges; the green 
shield on the fore-neck ex- 
tends in lateral tufts to the 
flanks ; and two long, narrow 
white plumes, erected at will, 
adorn the bend of each wing. 
Lophorhina superba is black, 
with blue, green, and bronzy 
gloss on the head and neck ; 
the bluish-green breast-shield is prolonged at the sides, and a 
metallic black erectile ruff graces the nape. Lamprothorax has 
coppery, green, purple, rosy, and brownish hues, and two long blue- 
ereen median rectrices. Phonygammus jamesi 1s purplish-violet, 
with blue-green head, under surface, lanceolate neck-feathers, and 
acuminate occipital tufts. The extraordinary Pferidophora alberti 
possesses a wonderful streamer behind each eye, twice as long as 
the body. This has, on the outer side only, about thirty-seven thin 
quadrangular enamel-like lobes, which are light blue with dusky 
backs. The plumage is black, with olive rump-region and ochra- 
ceous lower parts, the head and neck shewing elongated plumes. 
Manucodia atra is steel-green and black, with purple reflex- 
ions; JL (Lucorax) comrit has the head and neck-feathers curly, 
M. chalybeata those of the fore-neck. The Crow-like Lycocorax 
pyrrhopterus 1s greenish-black with brown wings; Vanthomelus 
aureus is orange-yellow, and has a deeper-coloured crested head 
and neck, black throat, tail, and part of wings and back, and a 
cape of hackled plumes falling over the last. 
Of the Bower-birds, Prionodura newtoniana is bright orange, 
olive, and brown; Cnemophilus macgregori is golden-yellow above 
and black below, with brownish wings and tail; the thin recurved 
Fic. 127.—Six-wired Bird of Paradise. Purotia 
sexpennis. xt. (From Malay Archipelago.) 
