race lit /ij deiscribcd Paradiseidie. 359 



The description is taken from the type^ which, together 

 with the only other known skin, is in the Tring Museum. 

 The type has the two central rectrices missing, but these are 

 ])resent in the second example — a legless, flat, Arfak skin. 

 The latter only differs from the type in having the five pairs 

 of outer rectrices much paler brown, only glossed with steel- 

 blue. As, however, tliis gloss is contined to one side of the 

 tail, it shews the bird to be less adult than the type, and 

 so I cannot attribute the paler tail to anything but youth. 

 Prof, Keicheiiow has described this bird under the generic 

 appellation of Paradisea, and has stated that it is probably a 

 hybrid between Paradisea miliar and Seleucides ifjnotus ! 



Genus NliOPARADlSEA. 



. Central tail-feathers intermediate between those of Para- 

 disea and Diphyllodes ; outer webs longest and green, curved 

 downwards as in Paradisea, not inwards and crossed as in 

 Diphyllodes. Bill as in Diphyllodes, but nostrils larger and 

 covered by nasal plumes, though less so than in Diphyllodes. 

 First primary short and pointed, second twice as long as 

 the first, fourth primary longest, not fifth as in most other 

 Faradiseida. Feathers on head and neck as in Paradisea. 

 Flank-plumes short, not reaching to the end of primaries, 

 but of the same structure as in Paradisea. 



One species : A^. ruysi Van Oort. 



Note. — The short flank-plumes denote a certain relation- 

 ship to lanthothorax. 



Mr. Van Oort considers the type of A^. ruyd immature, 

 but in view of the singularly immature appearance of per- 

 fectly adult specimens oi Lam pro thorax and lanthothorax, it 

 is quite clear to my mind that the bird is fully adult. 



Neoparadiska Ruvsi Van Oort. 



Neoparadisea ruysi Van Oort, Notes Leyd. Mus. xxviii. 

 p. 129 (1906-07). 



(J ad. Chin and throat black with })nrplish-green gloss; 

 fore-neck and breast blackish brown with a purplish-blue 

 gloss, each feather of the breast fan-shaped at its apex. 



