360 Mr. Walter Rothschild on 



brownish with metallic purplish-blue margin ; belly and 

 under tail-coverts blackish brown, the feathers of the latter 

 with pale centres. On the flanks are tufts of loose orna- 

 mental plumes, sooty brown with the barbs of the anterior 

 portions whitish brown ; these ornamental flank-plumes do 

 not reach end of wing. Forehead greenish black ; head 

 and neck covered with short, dense, pile-like feathers, 

 brownish yellow margined with greenish black. Hind-neck 

 and back bright orange-brown; rump and upper tail-coverts 

 olive-brown; tail fuscous brown with a purple gloss. Wings 

 dusky brown glossed with purple; outer web of quills with 

 broad orange-brown margins, inner webs with sandy-yellow 

 edges. 



Wing 150 mm. ; tail without central feathers 90 mm., 

 central tail-feathers 360 mm.; metatarsus 42 mm. 



Habitat. Warsenibo, west coast of Geelvink Bay, Dutch 

 New Guinea. 



SeLEUCIDES IGNOTUS AURIPENXIS. 



Se/eucides ignotus nuripennis Schluter, Falco, 1911, p. 2. 



(J ad. Differs from that of S. ignotus ignutas in having a 

 shorter wing and slenderer shorter bill ; the lateral plumes 

 are deeper and more golden yellow, and the green edges to 

 the lateral feathers of the breast-shield are wider. 



$ ud. and (^ juv. Difi"er from those of S. ignotus ignotus 

 in having the under side darker brown, the blackish-brow n 

 bars blacker and closer together, wing and bill shorter. 



Habited. German New Guinea and. North coast of Dutch 

 New Guinea east of the Ambernok River. 



Genus Pseudastrapia. 



Tail as in Falcinellus, but shorter, stiffer, and straighter ; 

 bill almost straight as in Astrapia, not long and sickle- 

 shaped ; feathering of forehead continued along the bill and 

 concealing the nostrils; a light-coloured (yellow) fleshy lobe 

 or wattle above and below the angle of the gape. 



Two species: P. lobata Rothsch, and P. ellioti (Ward). 



Note. — On rc-examiniiig the iy\}C o^ P. tdlioti I found that 

 it had the short, almost straight bill and the wattled gape 



