PAKADISEA. PIIONYGAMA. 449 



An egg of the Great Bird-of-Paradiae is of a regular oval 

 shape, slightly compressed towards the smaller end, and distinctly 

 glossy. The ground is salmon-cream-colour, longitudinally streaked 

 with burnt sienna and various shades of lighb and dark lilac-grey, 

 the streaks being chiefly disposed round the larger half of the 

 shell, the pole marked with a few spots only. It measures 1'54 

 by 1-08. 



1. Silbattabatta, Wanumbai, Wofcan Mrs. E. J. Jolir.stone [P. "I. 

 I., Am Is., 12th Dec. (W. 

 Goodfellow). 



Paradisea raggiana, ScUter. 



Paradisea raggiana, Sharpe. Cat. Birds B. M. iii. p. 169 (1877) ; Ramsay, 

 P. L. S. N.S. W. viii, p. 26 (1883); Sharpe, Monoc/r. Paradis. $ 

 Ptilon. i. p. 48 (1896) ; id., Hand-l. v. p. 573 (1909) ; Hartert, 

 Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 489, pi. x. fig. 3 (1910) ; Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, 1912, 

 p. 114, pi. iii. fig. 1. 



Two eggs of the Marquis Raggi's Bird-of-Paradise are very 

 similar to that of P. apada, but the ground is of rather a deeper 

 salmon-cream colour and the longitudinal streaks are rather more 

 numerous and confluent at the larger end. They measure 

 respectively 1-4 by 1-05; and 1-38 by -91. 



1. Kokada, north side of Owen Captain F. H, Barton [P.]. 



Stanley Mts. 

 1. Wamai, south side of Owen Cfiptain F. II. Barton [P.]. 



Stanley Mts. 



Genus PHONYGAMA, Lesson, 



Phony gama jamesi, Sharpe. 



Phonvgama jamesi, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iii. p. 181 (1877) ; id., 

 Hand-l. v. p. 579 (1909) ; Nehrk. Kat. JEiersamml. p. 35(5 (1910). 



Phony gam a purpureo-violacea, Meyer, Zeitschr. ges. Orn. ii. p. 375 

 (1885) ; Sharpe, Monagr. Paradis. $ Ptilon. ii. p. 5 (1894). 



Phonyo-ammus iamesi. Hartert, Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 490, pi. x. fig. 10 

 (1910). 



Two eggs believed to be those of James's Manucode are of a 

 regular oval shape, slightly compressed at the smaller end ; a third 

 egg is much pointed, and all are glossy, The ground differs in 

 each specimen, being pinkish-grey, buff tinscd with pink, or rather 

 bright salmon-buff. All three eggs are marked, mostly towards tlio 

 broad end, with short more or less longitudinal streaks or spots of 

 reddish-brown and lilac-grey; in the egg with the pinkish-buff 

 ground, the markings arc rather indistinct and blurred, while in the 

 other two specimens the red-brown surface-markings stand out 

 rather clearly from the lilac under-maikings, 



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