356 Mr. Walter Rothschild on 



Wing 150 mm.; tail 115 mm.; metatarsus 38 ram.; 

 culmen 34< mm. 



Habitat. Dutch New Guinea {Van Renesse van Duiven- 

 hode) . 



Note. — In all the other six forms of Parotia there are six 

 elongated head-plumes^ but there is no sign of any having 

 been pulled or shot out in the type of this species. A second 

 specimen was received by the Paris Museum in 1910, but 

 that has all the head-plumes wanting, so that there is still 

 no certain evidence of the real number of head-plumes in 

 P. duivenbodei. 



Parotia wahnesi. (Plate VI.) 



Parotia ivahnesi Hothsch., Foerster & Rothschild, Two new 

 Birds of Paradise, p. 2 (1906). 



(J ad. Differs from P. he/ena at first sight by having the 

 whole of the frontal crest composed of curled feathers broadly 

 tipped Avith bronzy gold, not straight and entirely bronze- 

 black as in P. /lele/ue. In the latter species only the short 

 feathers at the base of the culmen are tipped with golden 

 bronze. The most striking difference, however, lies in the 

 tails of the two species : in P. ivahnesi the tail is more than 

 double the length of the tail in P. helence, and is graduated 

 and wedge-shaped, as opposed to the square even tail of the 

 latter. 



Wing 156-165 mm.; tail 21.2-217 mm.; culmen 28-30 

 mm. ; metatarsus Sl-S-l mm. 



$ ad. Differs from the female of P. helence in the much 

 brighter reddish-chestnut colour of the upper surface, and 

 the more rufous tone of the under parts. Feathers of the 

 hind-neck heavily baii-ed with black. Interscapulium, back, 

 and rump more faintly vermiculated with black, while the 

 whole upper parts in P. helence are uniform umber-brown. 

 Wings and tail rufous chestnut instead of umber-brown. 



Wing circa 156 mm.; tail 178 mm.; culmen 25 mm. ; 

 metatarsus 52 ram. 



Jlahital. Hawlinsou Mts;., Ccrnian New Guinea [IVahnes 

 coll.) . 



