372 Mr. C. W. De Vis on new or little-known 



with red and streaked with yellow; middle rectrices dark 

 green to tip, laterals rather paler and very narrowly edged 

 with yellow round the tip, basal three-fourths of their inner 

 webs red, abruptly defined from the green beyond ; breast 

 and middle of abdomen red ; flanks and sides of breast pure 

 green, but paler than the throat ; under tail-coverts pale 

 green J covering the orange-red bases ; metacarpal edge green ; 

 under wing-coverts, lesser series as the breast, greater series 

 and inner webs of remiges for basal two-thirds rather paler 

 and duller red ; wing beneath deep fuscous; extreme outer 

 edge of outer and inner edge of inner primaries very narrowly 

 edged m ith yellow : " iris light red ; beak orange, yellow at 

 tip and beneatli ; feet grey/' Length 178 ram., wing 100, 

 tail 95, bill 13, tarsus 11. 



" Female: Mt. Scratchley, at 12,200 feet, Oct. 5th, 1896; 

 contents of stomach, fruits." 



The green and practically uniform head, the well-defined 

 area of red on the lateral rectrices, the uniform middle 

 rectrices, and the almost entire absence of yellow on the 

 under surface of the tail, render this bird quite distinct from 

 A^. muschenbroeki, Rosenb. On the occiput there is an 

 unpaired spot of orange feathers, no doubt a sport. 



Fam. Falconid^. 



2. AcciPiTER ERYTHRAUCHEN, Gray. 



Youny male. Above fuscous brown slightly washed with 

 grey, all the feathers with rufous edges, which increase in 



and liaving the feathers of the back greyish yellow. Altogether I 

 collected 220 birds ; but 1 was ill for some time and siilfered for want of 

 food, and for a long time I remained with only a single native with me. 

 I visited a villajj;e on Mount Scratchley, and was well received by the 

 natives. Next April I propose to [.enctrate again into the interior and to 

 put my camp on Mount Albert Edward, and after having collected on 

 the high plateaux of the mountain I mean to make excursions in the 

 valleys on the different sides. If 1 succeed in my projects,! feel confident 

 that I shall find new Birds of Paradise, as it seems that the different 

 species are very locally distributed. 



"The collection acqniied during my last expedition hp.s already been 

 sent to Brisban3." 



