420 Dr. A. B. Meyer on Birds 



This new species I dedicate to Mr. C. W. R. van Renesse 

 van Duivenbode, of Ternate, to whom science is already in- 

 debted for many interesting additions to the Papuan avifauna. 

 The female is, as yet, unknown. 



This Paradise-bird is easily distinguished from C. magnified 

 and C. inter cedens by the elongated erectable nuchal collar*, 

 with its central feathers shorter (3 cm.), its lateral ones longer 

 (4cm.), as also by the following characters: — The whole 

 upperside, wings, and head, except its metallic- green top, 

 are more reddish violet, whereas, especially in C. interce- 

 dens, the colour is decidedly blue-violet; the metallic-green 

 breast-shield lessens towai^ds the throat to a narrow band of 

 only 1 mm. breadth, and ceases altogether at a distance from 

 the base of the bill equalling the length of the free mandible ; 

 this narrow metallic-green stripe is surrounded by a violet 

 velvet-like one, and this latter again by a broad olive-coloured 

 zone. The lateral feathers of the metallic breast-shield are 

 more elongated (over 3 cm. long, only 2 cm. in the two other 

 species) ; the narrow line of feathers beneath the metallic of 

 the breast is of less brilliant colours ; in C. duivenbodei it is 

 dark olive with a slight purple gloss, and in the middle of 

 the breast less vivid. The green metallic breast-shield covers 

 at its distal end a layer of feathers, margined with black and 

 with metallic-blue subterminal spots. The breast and belly are 

 darker; the ornamental flank-plumes are short, they do not 

 reach the tip of the wing ; the inner webs of the first two 

 primaries are cut out at their tips, and the whole wing has 

 not the remarkable rounded form of the two other species. 



24. Paradisea finschi, mihi. 



I described (Z. f. ges. Orn. 1885, p. 383) under this name 

 a mutilated skin from the north coast of New Guinea, 

 brought home by Dr. Finsch, and declared by him to belong 

 to a new species, as all specimens seen were of smaller size 



* Though I am not inclined to create a new genus for every new- 

 Bird of Paradise, I presume that this species will soon be generically 

 separated by someone on account of its erectable nuchal collar. In such 

 tfase I would propose to call the new genus Paryphephorus, from napv<pr] 

 = collare, and <popea=feYO. 



