Bird of Paradise from British New Guinea. 251 



Macgregoria, gen. nov. 

 Bill shorter than head behind the nostrils, higher than 

 broad ; culmen subacute, curved gently on basal, more 

 rapidly on apical moiety ; edge of maxilla with a shallow 

 subapical notch ; nostril narrow, elongate, half hidden by 

 nasal plumes ; fore part of head with more or less erect 

 plumes ; a large caruncle on the posterolateral part of the 

 head. Wing short, rounded ; primaries longer than second- 

 aries and first primary longer than the second by equal 

 lengths ; wing-tip rounded, formed by the 4th, 5th, 6th, 

 and 7th quills. Tail moderate, rounded. Tarsus moderate, 

 stout, scutellation entire fore and aft. Feet strong ; hallux 

 equal in length to middle toe and claw. 



Macgregoria pulchra, sp. nov. (Plate VII.) 



Frontal, sincipital, and loreal plumes forming a compact 

 brush, the frontals inclining forward, the sincipitaJs back- 

 ward ; a caruncle extending from the fore end of the orbit 

 above and below over the cheek, side of the neck, ears, and 

 upper part of the side of the head. General colour black, 

 caruncle yellow (orange-yellow in life) ; primaries rufous 

 yellow, paler on the outer edges of the outer quills, black 

 on the apical fifth. Iris dull red ; feet grey. Total length 

 325 mm. ; culmen 21*5 ; wing 187 ; tarsus 60'5 ; hind toe 

 32; tail 167. 



Hab. Mt. Scratchley, British New Guinea, at 21,000 feet 

 altitude. 



Obs. Three examples of this bird, all (presumably) males, 

 were obtained by Sir W. Macgregor, in May 1896, during 

 his journey across British New Guinea from Mambare to 

 the Vanapa River. Mr. A. Giulianetti, his Excellency's 

 collector, notes that " the species is pretty common all over 

 the Scratchley Range.'' He saw it up to about 12,600 feet 

 of elevation. 



[In a communication made by Prof. Giglioli to the 

 ' Bollettino della Societa Geografica Italiana,' fasc. 1°, 1897, 

 it seems that this bird has been mentioned by Sir W. 

 Macgregor, in a letter to Prof. Giglioli, as intended to be 



