(82) 



lii). Paradisea raggiana Scl. 

 1(1 S !i<l., 1 J immat., Mailu district, Bntish New Guinea, July— August IS'Jo. 

 A. S. Aiitliouy coll. 



1 S ail., 1 (J immat., Brown River. Emil Weiske coll. 



2 <S ad.. :.' c? immat., 2 ? ?, Nicura. Lix coll. 



4 <J ad., Milne Bay, British New Guinea, Meek coll., Oct. 1898. 



:3 (? ad., Oriori district, Jauuary 1800. A. S. Anthony coll. 



1.' S ad.. Mt. Cameron. A. S. Anthony coll. 



1 d ad., Owen Stanley llange, 70UO ft. Bought from Schneider in Basel. 



1 ?, British New Guinea, 1879. A. Goldie coll. 



1 ?, Hall Bay, British New Guinea, 10. vii. 1875. D'Albertis & Tomasinelli 

 coll. (No. ~31), specimen / of the list in Orii. Pap. ii. 



AVe find all onr specimens from the Mailu district, except one, have the yellow 

 colour spread over the interscapulium, as also those from Milne Bay and Nicura, 

 while those from Mt. Cameron and Brown lUver have the yellow colour sharply cut 

 off on the hindneck ; two of the three from Oriori are somewhat intermediate in this 

 respect, wliile the third resembles the Mt. Cameron specimens. These facts indicate 

 the possibility of the existence of an eastern and western subspecies. On the Fly 

 Kiver, where P. r<ui(jiana occurs together with P. a. novaeguiueae, Signor D'Albertis 

 procured a number of evident hybrids, which display an almost comjilete inter- 

 gradation of the characters of the two species. The Tring Museum has one of 

 these hybrids: 



1 S ad.. Fly River, 25. x. 1877. D'Albertis coll. (No. 703), specimen h of the 

 list ill (Jru. Pdj). ii. \k G21. 



70. Paradisea decora Satv. & Godm. 



1 S ad., Normanby Island, D'Entrecasteaux group, 20. viii. 1899. " Iris bright 

 yellow, feet light brown (should rather be bluish slaty ?), bill blue-slate." A. S. 

 Meek coll. No. 2077. 



2 (? ad., Fergusson Island, D'Entrecastoanx grouji, 19. 20. v. 1897. " Iris 

 bright yellow, feet dark slate, bill milky bluish slate." A. S. Meek coll., Nos. 

 312, 310. 



1 i ad., Fergusson Island, December 1894. A. S. Meek coll. 



1 c? iid., Fergusson Island, bought from the late H. Whitely. i 



1 c? immat., Fergusson Island, bought from the late H. Whitely. ) vl '• 



3 cj without decorative long side-jdumes, but with fully developed thread-like 

 central rectrices, chest lilac-grey, abdomen rusty brownish, with or without indica- 

 tions of bars, Fergusson Island, May 1807, Nos. 244, 315, 367, A. S. Meek coll. 



1 (? in the same plumage, abdomen with some bars, Fergusson Island, 23. viii. 

 isii'.i. A. S. Meek coll., No. 2081. 



2 i immat., with narrow spatnlate central rectrices and barred chest and breast, 

 Fergusson Island, September and December 1894. A. S. Meek coll. 



1 cT immat. in the same plumage, Fergusson Island, 23. iii. 1897. A. S. 

 I\Ieek coll.. No. 371. 



1 i jnv. \\\ female's plumage, Fergusson Island, cotypc, jmrcliased from H. 

 Whitely. ' 



1 i jny. in /rm.'i/c's plumage, Fergusson Island, 15. v. 1897. "Iris bright 

 yellow, feet reddish slate, bill blue-slate." A. S. Meek coll.. No. 20.5. 



