recently described Paradiseidie. 353 



111 the ' Tierreicli ' I also united Cklamydera nuchalis and 

 C. orientalis as identical, being misled by some wrongly 

 labelled specimens ; they are, however, confined to difierent 

 areas o£ the Australian continent and should stand as sub- 

 species thus : — 



C/ilamydera nuchalis nuchalis (Jard. & Selby). — Northern and 

 North-west Australia, 



Chlumydera nuchalis orientalis (Jould. — Queensland. 



Since 1898 I have received specimens of Diphyllodes 

 gulielmi-tertii from German New Guinea and British New 

 Guinea. They were shot respectively between Bongn and 

 Stephansort, and in the Owen Stanley jNIouutains. 



These are tiie first properly localised specimens known, as 

 all the others were skins traded out of Dutch New Guinea. 

 The British New Guinea bird, has the belly whiter than any 

 others that I have yet seen, but, as the specimens all vary 

 inter se, I do not venture to separate it until more examples 

 come from there. 



I also have received the second known specimen oi Pary- 

 phephorus duivenhodei from British New Guinea. This was 

 brought home by Mr. A. E. Pratt, who stated that it was 

 killed at Foula, 4000 ft. in the mountains between the Aroa 

 and St. Joseph's Rivers in British New Guinea. 



Dr. Sharpe, in the 'History of the Collections in the 

 Natural History Museum' (vol. ii. p. 131), has proved that 

 Latham's Tardus nieHnus was not Sericulus luelinus auct., 

 but a Sphecotheres ; therefore the correct name for the Regent 

 Bird is Sericulus chrysocephahs (Lewin). 



Dr. Lorenz has at last obtained perfect skins of Xanthu- 

 melus aureus ardens Alb. & Salvad., and it proves more 

 difierent from A", aureus aureus than I thought, owing to the 

 want of the black throat. I still, however, consider it to be 

 only the geographical representative of X. a. aureus, as it 

 does not difler structurally. 



Faradisea rudolphi hunti (Le Souef) is merely a synonym 

 of P. rudolphi, as I have specimens from the tyi)ical locality 



