448 PARADISE.*:. 



considerable amount of gloss. They are of n, creamy-buff colour, 

 sparingly marked with broad, longitudinal streaks, some of which 

 are slate-colour and others of two shades of chestnut-brown. There 

 are also a few spots and specks of a rufous colour scattered over 

 the shell. The specimens measure respectively : 1'28 by '89 ; 

 1-26 by -9. 



2. Cape York, N. Australia (H. Dudley Le Souef, Esq. [E.]. 

 Barnard). 



Genus ASTRAPIA, V-leill. 

 Astrapia stephaniae, Finsch $ Meyer. 



Astrarchia stephaniae, Finsch & Meyer, Zeitsch. ges. Oni. ii. p. 378 

 (188o); Sharpe, Monogr. Paradis. $ Ptilon. p. 43, pi. xx. (189 1); 

 itl., Hand-L v. p. 572 (1909). 



Astrapia stephamaB, ? Hartertj Nov. Zool xvii. p. 488, pi. x. fig. 8 (1910) ; 

 Ogilvie- Grant, Ibis, 1912, p. 114, pi. iii. fig. 3. 



An egg of Princess Stephanie's Bird-of-Paradise is of a regular 

 and rather elongate oval shape and is less glossy than eggs of 

 Paradisea apoda and P. raygiana. The ground is buff tinged with 

 salmon-colour, and the longitudinal markings are mostly concentrated 

 in two large patches on the broader half of the egg : besides these, 

 there are numerous large and small spots scattered over the rest of 

 the shell. The shell-markings are vandyke-brown and burnt-sienna 

 and the underlying markings, which are few, large and all disposed 

 longitudinally, are dull lavender-grey. It measures 1*65 by 1*1. 



1. (Laid in captivity) Owen F. J. Brook, Esq. [P.]. 



Stanley Mt? M 14th Aug. 

 (W. Goodfelloiv}. 



The egg figured by Dr. Hartert (op. cit.\ and taken by A. 

 S. Anthony in the Owen Stanley Mountains, 8000 ft., is much 

 smaller than the one described above, which was laid in Mr. Brook's 

 Aviarv at Hoddam Castle. The former has possibly been wrongly 

 identified, and is indistinguishable from eggs of P. rac/c/iana found 

 in the same district, but seldom met with above an altitude of 

 3000 ft. Mr. Brook's bird laid two other eggs quite similar to the 

 one described above. 



Genus PARADISEA, Linn. 

 Paradisea apoda, Linn. 



Paradisea apoda, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iii. p. 166 (1877) ; Meyer, 

 Zeitschr. gcs. Orn. i. p. 293, pi. xvii. fig. 2 (1884) ; Sharpe, Monogr. 

 Paradi*. $ ttilon. i. p. 45 (1891); id., Hanri-l. v. p. 572 (1909); 

 Goodfellow, Avicult. Mag. (3) i. p. 283 (1910) ; Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, 

 1912. p. 113. pi. iii. 6g.2. 



