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brown, and both crown and neck are spotted with pale yellow ; the underside is 

 brownisli buff, not greyish white. The back is still less brown, a little more olive- 

 grey than in our youngest L. *•. mhior. It would, therefore, be most desirable to 

 examine adult males and females from tiiis region, as tiiere might exist small 

 differences from typical minor. 



J 

 215. Parotia carolae carolae A. B. Meyer (?). 



Pumtia carolae A. B. Meyer, Bull. B. 0. Club iv. p. 6 (1894-" N.W. New Guinea," but described 

 from trade-skms without locality) ; van Oort, Nova Guinea ix., Zool. i. p. 102. 



2 ? ; Mt. Goliath, 6, 7. ii. 1911. (Nos. 5317, 5326, A. S. Meek Coll.) 

 " Iris silvery and ashy grey ; bill black ; feet black and dark brown." 

 Until we have seen males from Mt. Goliath, we shall not be certain whether 



these birds belong to P. c. carolae or beriepsc/ti, but they are certainly more grey, 



less olive, than our females of mee/a. 



' 216. Parotia carolae meeki Rothsch. 



Panitia carolae meeki Rothschild, Hull. B. 0. Club xxvii. p. 35 (1910 — Snow Mountains). 



1 cJ ad., 3 ? ad., 3 S imm. ; Suow Mountains, 3000 ft., August to November, 

 1910. (Nos. 4558, 4610, 4846, 4896, 4913, 4914, 4951, A. S. Meek Coll.) 



The iris of the adult male is described as " lemon yellow." 



The old male after all differs from that of P. c. carolae only in having a black 

 chin, upper throat and cheeks. 



^n. 



Paradigalla brevicauda Rothsch. & Hart. 



Paradigalla bm^icauihi Rothschild and Hartert, Noo. Zool. 1911. p. 159 (Mt. Goliath, collected by 

 A. S. Meek. Type in Tring Museum) ; Rothschild, Ihin 1912. p. 109. pi. ii. 



7 c? ad., 3 i jun., 5 c? juv., 4 ? ad. ; Mt^ Goliath, not less than 5000 ft. 

 January and February 1911. (Nos. 5099, 5120, 5123, 5124, 5145,5164, 5183, 519l', 

 5220, 5123, 5247, 5250, 5322, 5323, 5340, 5357, 5428, 5462, 5467, A. S. Meek 



0,I1.) 



'' 218. Loboparadisea sericea Rothsch. 



Lobnj/aradi.-<ca nericea Rothschild, Ball. B. (J. Club vi. p. 1.^ (1H9G — "North coast of New Guinea" 

 — from hearsay, exact locality not known. Figured Nov. Zool. 1897. pi. 2). 



3 ? ; Mount Goliath, 29. i., 4, 13. ii. 1011. (Nos. 5235, 5299, 5375, A. S. 

 Meek Coll.) 



" Iris dark brown ; bill and feet black." 



We have no doubt that these must be females of a Loboparadisea very closely 

 allied to L. nericea, and probably of the latter, but until males from Mt. Goliath are 

 e.Kamined, we cannot be absolutely certain. There is no turned-np wattle as in the 

 male, but between the nostrils and the lores is an area of soft skin, and a narrow 

 line of feathers runs up from each nostril to the forehead. The colour from the 

 forehead to beyond the middle of tlie back is brownish olive (instead of yellowish 

 chestnut;, lower back and rump lemon-yellow witii olive markings on the middle of 

 Koini; fi'athers ; uppiu' tail-coverts rufons-olive. Tail deep rul'ous-l)rown (instead of 

 liright rufous). Under-surface lemon instead of golden yellow. Wings 9()-99 mm., 

 while the wings of the four males now in the Tring Museum measure from 90 to 98 mm. 



