418 Dr. A. B. Meyer on Birds 



19. Mino dumonti, Less. 



Constantine Harbour, New Guinea, one female, 21st Nov., 

 1888 (Kubary). " Eyes dirty light brown j bill and feet vivid 

 orange-yellow." 



The specimen is green, like specimens from Passim, Nappan, 

 Inwiorage, and Rubi, on the Geelvink Bay, and not bluish, 

 as the specimen from Kafu (North New Guinea), which I 

 mentioned Z. f. ges. Orn. 1886, p. 35. (I nmst amend the 

 remark which I made then, specimens from Jobi and Aru 

 being neither of them so blue as the specimen from Kafu, 

 though rather more blue than specimens from the other parts 

 of New Guinea.) 



20. Epimachus ellioti, Ward. 



A male from North-west New Guinea, without more exact 

 locality (via Ternate). 



This is the first complete specimen known, as the type was 

 a defective native skin, also without locality (see Salvadori, 

 Orn. Pap. ii. p. 548, and Suppl. ii. p. 154). Elliot's plate 

 (Mon. Parad. xx.) is quite wrong, Gould's (Birds of N. Guin. 

 vol. i. pi. 8) much better, though neither are exact, as the fol- 

 lowing details show : — The green colour of the flank-plumes, 

 belly, and base of the ornamental breast-plumes is darker, as 

 well as the violet of the breast, which latter colour shades 

 slowly into the green of the belly ; the throat is metallic 

 green, shading into violet laterally ; the metallic margins of 

 the ornamental sickle-shaped breast-plumes are broader on 

 the lower ones (up to 4 mm.), narrower on the upper, and 

 entirely wanting on the outermost ; all are much narrower 

 underneath (see Gould's chief figure) ; the tail underneath 

 is darker; the shape of the tail is concave; the violet of the 

 back and wing-coverts is less vivid than on the plate. 



As no exact measurements of the male are known, I add 

 the following : — Bill 0-041 m., wing 0-202, tail 0-403, tarsus 

 0-050, longest ornamental breast-plumes 0' 125, longest flank- 

 plurnes 0'190. 



The female of this species is unknown. 



