( 521 ) 

 ' 205. Manucodia atra atra (Less.). 



Cf. Nov. Zoul. 1903. p. 84 ; van Oort, Ni>ra Guinea ix., Zool. i. p. 104. 



c?? ad., ? jnn. ; Upper Setekwa River, 14, 2U. vii. 1910. (Nos. 4361, 4396,' 

 4397, A. S. Meek Coll.) 



206. Paradisea apoda novaeguineae Alb. & Salvad. 



Paradisea apoda var. novaeguineae d'Albertis and Salvador!, Ann. Mus. Geiiova xiv. p. 96 (1879 — 

 Fly River) ; van Oort, Nova Guinea ix , Zool. i. p. 103. 



3 c? juv., 2 ? ad. ; Upper Setekwa River, July to November 1910. (Nos. 4288, 

 4400, 4418, 4525, 4981, A. S. Meek Coll.) 



*/ 207. 



Cicinnurus regius regius (L.). 



Paradisea vegia Linnaeus, Syat. Nat. ed. x. i. p. 10 (1758 — " India orient." !) ; cf. van Oort, Nova 

 Guinea ix., Zool. i. p. 102. 



6 ? jiiv. ; Upper Setekwa River, 15. ix. 1910, 13. xi. 1910. (Nos. 4543, 4988, 

 A. «. Meek Coll.) 



(? juv. ; Snow Mountains, 20U0ft., 11. x. 1010. (No. 4813, A. S. Meek Coll.) 



208. Diphyllodes magnificus magnificus (Penn.). 



Paradisea magnifica PeBna.nt, iaForster's -Zuol. Ind. p. 40 (1781 — No definite locality) ; cf. van 

 Oort, Nova Guinea ix. i. p. 102. 



2 <S ad., 1 cJ juv., 3 ? ; Snow Mountains, 2000-30O0 ft., July— October 1910. 

 <Nos. 4552, 4604, 4642, 4712, 4716, 4919, A. S. Meek Coll.) 



The two adult males have the inner secondaries exactly alike and of a dull 

 orange. They agree thus fairly well with the brighter specimens of our series 

 of what we call typical mapiijic/i.s. Males obtained by the Goodfellow expedition 

 are called clinjioptera by Mr. U.-Grant (t.c. p. 271). Typical chry.wptera from Jobi 

 are, however, much brighter and darker orange ou the inner secondaries ; in fact, 

 •except for having fuscous instead of rufous brown crowns, they are qnite comparable 

 •with hunsteini. 



Lesson's name "seleucides" appears on p. 16 of his " Paradiseidae," and 

 on the same page, under the genus Diphi/llodes, he distinctly states that his genus 

 contains only a single species. On p. 191 Lesson calls the birds figured on plates 19 

 and 20 D. nuujnificws, while the same plates were quoted on p. 16 as D. seleitcides. 

 It is tiierefore quite clear that the name .selei/cides was only a new name for 

 mayiiiticus ; and it is thus impossible to use the names imujnijicus and seleucides for 

 two different forms. Should it become necessary, when more material with exact 

 localities and dates comes to hand, to separate the birds with dull orange inner 

 secondaries from those with clay-coloured ones, the latter will have to receive 

 a new name. 



' 209. Astrapia splendidissima Rothsch. 



Antra/tia »i>lt'ndidi8Himn Rotliscliild, .Xnr. Xnul. ii. p. ."»9. pi. ti (18tK'»). 



The adult in:ilrs ilill'iT fniiu our trade-skins from Dutch New (luinea in the 

 I'olldwing points : 



TIk! gre(Mi of till' hcail and neck ai)ov(! lai'ks the goldcMi gloss and is more 

 Jiluish. The tlinial, and lower neck are more bluish and leas golden ; the metallic 



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