362 Mr. Walter Rothschild on 



band of |)nl•pli^sh ])nn\ze, while iu A. niyra these feathers 

 have a broad terminal band of glittering green. Breast- 

 shield, head^ and throat glossed with bright greenish steel- 

 blue instead of pnrple. 



Wing 182-1'Jl mm.; tail 430-485 mm.; culmen 38- 

 39 mm. ; metatarsus 44-46 mm. 



? ad. Similar to A. nigra, but more black in colour, and 

 the breast moi'c extensively barred with vcrmiculate pale 

 bars. 



Wing 166 mm. ; tail 250-290 mm. ; culmen 38-39 mm. ; 

 metatarsus 43-45 mm. 



Habitat. Rawlinson Mts., German New Guinea (IFuhnes 

 coll.). 



Note. — It will strike many tliat I am inconsistent in not 

 treating Astrapia rothschildi and A. stephanua as subspecies 

 of A. nigra, but the structure of the plumage of the males 

 is different, and though they undoubtedly represent one 

 another geographically, I do not feel justified in uniting 

 them as thi'ee subspecies. 



CiciNNURUs LvoGYiius Curric. 



Cicinnurus hjognrus Currie, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. 

 p. 497 (1900), Patria ignota. 



Differs from (/. regius (Linn.) in having the jjcctoral 

 shield nearly four times as long as in the latter, it being 

 almost as long as broad ; frontal plumes shorter, not pro- 

 jecting forward beyond middle of bill and not obscuring the 

 the contour of the skull ; tail emarginate instead of rounded ; 

 outer web at end of central tail-shafts only two-thirds as 

 wide near base, the width uniform lor the greater part of 

 its length, instead of narrowing rapidly to the tip, much 

 more loosely coiled ; the apical portion of the naked crossed 

 tail-shafts divergent instead of convergent. The crimson of 

 tlie back is darker ; crown and forehead orange-vermilion, 

 not orange-chrome ; pectoral tufts smaller, darker, and sub- 

 terminal bu(f line on each plume much narrower, darker, 

 and less conspicuous ; pectoral shield, except a narrow 

 edging on lower border, and tips of central tail-feathers 

 grass-green, not emerald-green, and the tips of the pectoral 



