recently described Paradiseidpe. 361 



o^ PseudastrajAa as well as the shorter aiul stiffer tail, and 

 so it must be taken out of the genus FalcineUns and placed 

 in the above-mentioned genus. 



1. PSEUDASTRAPIA LOBATA. 



Pseudastrapid lohaia Rothschild, Bull. B. O. C. xxi. p. 25 

 (1907). 



$ immnt. General colour dull black ; forehead with bottle- 

 green gloss ; the elongated middle rectrices with a metallic 

 steel-blue gloss as in Falcinellus meyeri. and drawn out into 

 long, narrow points, not abruptly cuneate as in Pseudastrapia 

 edioti. Bill and feet black. The wattles at the gape appear 

 to have been pale yellow, not orange as in P. cllioti. 



Wing 187 mm.; middle rectrices 395, lateral rectrices 

 1.22 ram. ; culmen 42 mm. ; metatarsus 46 mm. 



Habitat. Dutch New Guinea. 



2. Pseudastrapia ellioti (Ward). 



Epimachus ellioti Ward, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 742; Elliot, 

 Monogr. Parad. pi. xx. (1873); Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 

 iii. p. 163 (1877); Gould, B. New Guinea, i. pi. viii. (1880) ; 

 Shai-pe, jNIonogr. Parad. pi. xvi. (189G); ]\Ieyer, Ibis, ii. (6) 

 p. 418(1890). 



Falcinellus ellioti llothsch. Das Tierreich, Aves, Lief, ii. 

 p. 29 (1898). 



Astrapia rothschildi. 



Astrapia rothschildi Focrster & Rothscliild, Two new Birds 

 of Paradise, p. 2 (1906). 



1^ ad. Similar to A. nigra, but the metallic border to the 

 bveast-shield is more fiery red and only reaches to the upper 

 edge of the shield, not, as in A. niyra, to below the eye. 

 The postocnlar black fan-shaped tufts of A. nigra are absent 

 in the ])resent species. The lunated flank-feathers have 

 a narrow subterminal metallic-coppery band, followed bv a 

 terminal green one, not a broader entirely green terminal 

 band as in A. nigra. The feathers on the hind-neck and 

 lower na])e appear duller in colour, each feather liaving a 

 subterminal glittering green band followed by a terminal 



