554 Canon Tristram on Birds from the 



that of the junior is light brown, and the barbs yellowish 

 brown with a golden hue. The breast and abdomen of the 

 young are very pale chestuut^ the former thickly marked 

 with brown wavy lines. 



Mr. Thomson remarks : "So far as we have found, and we 

 searched very carefully, the Paradisea decora is confined ex- 

 clusively to a mountain (Mt. Maybole) on the N.W. corner 

 of Fergusson Island, where we met with it at 2500 ft. above 

 the sea-level. The three specimens in the Sydney Museum 

 were obtained on that mountain by Mr. Goldie, and we spent 

 a fortnight in Fergusson Island searching for it. The note is 

 very like that of P. raggiana, and if it is to be met with 

 elsewhere, I feel sure that we should have heard or seen it." 



3. CiCINNURUS REGIUS (L.). 



One male in full plumage. Milne Bay, S.E. New Guinea. 



4. Craspedophora magnifica (V.). 



Two male specimens, fully adult. Milne Bay, S.E. New 

 Guinea. 



5. Manucodia comrii, Sclat. 



Three adult specimens from the d'Entrecasteaux Islands. 



Of this gorgeous bird Mr. Thomson writes : " It is confined 

 exclusively to the d'Entrecasteaux group, where it is by far 

 the commonest bird. The extraordinary convolutions of 

 the windpipe, which is coiled under the skin in the smaller 

 species {Manucodia thomsoni, sp. nov.), are here replaced by a 

 straight tube running from the throat to the vent, and re- 

 turning before entering the thorax, about 18 inches in length 

 altogether. The note is most peculiar — a low tremolo whistle 

 of so peculiar a ' timbre ■" that it can be heard more than a 

 mile from the shore.''^ I am not aware that this extra- 

 ordinary production and convolution of the windpipe in the 

 Manucodes has ever previously been noted, excepting in 

 M. keraudreni. In M. atra, according to Salvadori, it does 

 not occur. 



6. Manucodia thomsoni, sp. nov. 



One specimen from the d^Entrecasteaux Islands. 

 M. corpore prorsus toto purpureo-nitente ; plumis dorsi, pec- 

 tons, et abdominis longis et filamentosis ; capite, mento 



