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not be male and female of the same species. The female 

 obtained by the Expedition possesses many characteristics 

 in common with the male type of C. lauterhachi and the 

 differences in plumage are just what one would expect 

 to find in the female of that species. 



The beautiful Cat-bird [Mhirc^dus stonei) was fairly 

 plentiful, and is remarkable on account of its peculiar 

 colouring. The cap is brown, the back grass-green, and 

 the neck and under-parts buff, spotted with black, or 

 green on the longer flank-feathers. The eye is hazel 

 and the bill and legs slate-blue. The sexes are alike in 

 plumage. It derives its popular name from its peculiar 

 hissing alarm note, not unlike the sound made by an 

 angry cat. 



Of the Manucodes, four different kinds were met 

 with. They are all crow-like birds with brilliant metallic 

 black plumage glossed with purple, green or blue, and 

 form a hnk between the Paradise-Birds and the true 

 Crows. The Purple-and- Violet Manucode (Phonygama 

 jamesi) is distinguished by possessing tufts of long, 

 narrow metallic green plumes behind the eye, and by 

 having the neck-feathers similarly lengthened ; while the 

 other three belonging to the genus Mamicodia have the 

 head and neck covered with short curly feathers. These 

 curly-headed species are much alike in general appear- 

 ance, but M. orientalis has the short curly feathers on 

 the chest and breast glittering golden-green, while in 

 M. jobiensis and M. altera the same parts are dark steel- 

 blue. Inter se the two latter kinds differ considerably, 

 both structurally and in colour. M. jobiensis is 

 smaller and has the feathers of the throat rounded and 

 crinkled, and the upper-parts glossed with a strong shade 

 of violet ; while M. altera is larger and has the throat- 

 feathers short but rather pointed, and the general colour 

 above purplish-blue or steel-blue. 



In most of the Manucodes the trachea is very long 



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