from the Papuan Region. 419 



21. Drepanornis bruijni, Oast. 



Walckenaers Bay, west of Humboldt Bay, on the north 

 coast of New Guinea {via Ternate) . 



A male in full plumage, whereas Oustalet had no such 

 one in hand, as appears from his words, " vestiges de la livree 

 du jeune age/' viz. brown cross bands on the belly (see 

 Le Naturaliste, 1887, p. 180, and comp. Salvadori, Orn. Pap. 

 ii. p. 553, and Suppl. ii. p. 155), and as is further proved by 

 his description of the ruff ("fraise"), which is less developed 

 than in the specimen before me. The brown feathers of this 

 foreneck-shield, mentioned by Oustalet, are black at their 

 ends, margined with metallic blue-violet (not metallic green, 

 as in Oustalet's specimen), the black shining in certain lights 

 metallic green. On this layer of feathers lies another and 

 shorter one of the same black colour (shining with metallic 

 green in certain lights), margined, about 3 mm. broad, with 

 metallic carmine copper-bronze, and forming a fan of twelve 

 plumes. Oustalet speaks only of two or three such feathers, 

 with carmine copper-bronze margins, at the commencement 

 of the rows of ornamental side-plumes. The hair-like 

 feathers of the upper breast are metallic greenish. In other 

 respects Oustalet's description agrees generally with the 

 Dresden specimen, though a more accurate description of this 

 remarkable bird appears not to be superfluous, and a figure 

 is very desirable. 



22. Craspedophora intercedens (Sharpe). 



A male from Constantine Harbour, N.E. New Guinea. 



23. Craspedophora duivenbodei, n. sp. (Plate XII.) 

 Mas, maribus C. magnifies et G. inter cedentis affinis, sed 



minor ; nuchas plumis dorso concoloribus, elongatis, 

 erectis, collaris vel flabelli ad instar; scuto pectorali 

 viridi, ejusdem plumis lateralibus elongatis ; dorso absque 

 violascentioribus et stria gulari centrali metallica brevi 

 et angusta, divers us. 



Long. tot. c. 0-280 m., al. 0*160, caud. 0*109, rostri (culm.) 

 0-040, tarsi 0-033. 



A male from N.W. New Guinea, without exact locality. 



