recently described Paradiseidse. 355 



the middle of the forehead of a different shade of grey and 

 more uniform. 



Habitat. 'Letakwa' River, Dutch New Guinea, 2000- 

 2500 feet. Collected by A. S. Meek. 



Parotia duivenbodei. (Plate V.) 



Parotia duivenbodei Rotbsch. Bull. B. O. C. x. p. JOO 

 (1900). 



t^ ad. Pectoral shield of a difterent shape, structure, and 

 colour and more extended than in P. helence, P. sefilata, or 

 P. laivesi. The shield, in fact, consists of a much larger 

 number of rows of smaller, narrower, and more scutellate 

 feathers, which give it a rougher appearance. Tbe ruff-like 

 development on the sides of the neck does not extend so far 

 across the throat, in consequence of which the metallic 

 feathers of the pectoral shield reach further upon the throat, 

 gradually diminishing in size and number. The black 

 central shaft-patches on the lower laterals of the shield 

 are considerably narrower and much less numerous. The 

 colour of the pectoral shield is a glittering metallic grass- 

 green, with some of the feathers on the edges of the shield 

 washed and edged with blue, whereas in the three allied species 

 the shield is of a brilliant coppery greenish-golden colour. 

 There is no long erect tuft on the forehead, and the crest on 

 the front part of the head is in the form of a low cushion. 

 The glittering occipital baud of the several allied species is 

 replaced by a large, triangular, rather wedge-shaped, shield 

 of glittering metallic steel-green feathers, the shield being 

 edged with steel-blue and extending from between the eyes 

 to the occiput. There is one long head-plume on each 

 side, and the dark feathers on each side of the head-shield 

 from behind the eyes are lengthened so as to form horns 

 somewhat like those in the genus Phonygammus. There is no 

 white anywhere on the head, and the colour of this part and 

 the whole of the rest of the upper surface is of a rich deep 

 bronzy purple, not glossed wdth oily brown as in the allied 

 forms. The first and second primaries are less abruptly 

 emarginate than in the nearly related species. 



