358 i\lr. Walter llothscliild on 



LOBORHAMPHUS PTILOHIIIS. 



LaburhampJiUft jyti/orh/s Sliarpe, Bull. B. O. C. xxi. p. G7 ; 

 id. Hand-1, B. v. p. 575. 



cJ ad. Velvety black, strongly washed with coppery 

 purple. The crown metallic, slightly paler, but otherwise 

 uniform with the back. Nasal plumes thick aud velvety; 

 sides of" the head of the same colour as crown. Chin oily 

 green. Pectoral shield mostly reddish purple, but with some 

 of the feathers bordered with steel-green. Best of under 

 side velvety black. Base of bill with yellow wattles. 



Wing 178"5 mm.; tail 155 mm.; culmen 37'5 mm.; 

 metatarsus 42"5 mm. 



Habitat. Dutch New Guinea. 



Ianthothorax MiRAHiLis (Reichcn.) . 



Paradisea mirabilis Reichenow, Orn. Monatsb. ix. p. 18G 

 (1901) ; Jonrn. f. Orn. 190.2, pi. i. 



Ianthothorax inirabilts Rothsch. Bull. B. O. C. xiii. p. 31 

 (1903). 



c^ ad. Head, occiput, chin, throat, and sides of head and 

 throat covered with a thick mass of close, small, velvetyj scale- 

 like feathers, glittering steel-blue ; hind-neck, interscapuiium, 

 and npper back blackish steel-blue. Lower two-thirds of 

 back and upper tail-coverts liver-brown intermixed with 

 blackish ; tail sooty black-brown, outer Avebs saturated and 

 washed with steel-blue, central rectrices narrow and pointed, 

 about one inch longer than the rest, bright steel-blue. 

 Quills deep brown, rest of wings and upper wmg-coverts 

 liver-brown intermixed with brownish black. Breast aud 

 upper abdomen deep velvety purplish brown, flanks paier ; 

 lower abdomen yellowish grey, streaked with purple-brown. 

 Elongated flank-plumes yellowish grey, washed with pale 

 clay-brown. 



Wing 185-195 mm.; tail without central rectrices 130 

 mm., central rectrices 155 mm.; elongated flank-plumes 

 exceed central rectrices by 211 mm. ; culmen IG mm. ; meta- 

 tarsus 50 mm. 



Ilabiiat. German and Dutch New Guinea. 



