110 Hon. Walter Rothscliikl on some 



of a glossle?s black. These ^reen outer crlges to the secon- 

 daries are mostly duller or else purplish in our skins of 

 P. carunculata, but too much weight ought not to be laid on 

 this difference, for while our specimens o£ P. brevicauda are 

 all fresh well-made skins, those of P. carunculata are old and 

 remade. The great and striking difference between this 

 recently described species and P. carunculata is the short, 

 straight, and somewhat emarginatc tail, having the central 

 rectrices slightly shorter, while the tail in the latter is long 

 and cuneiform, the middle tail-feathers exceeding the lateral 

 ones l)y 60-G5 mm. A very peculiar fact, distinctly showing 

 the line of evolution, is, that tlie young birds of /-*. hrevicauda 

 have the tail longer than the adults, ?'. e. 3.1 to 40 mm. longer. 

 The first two primaries are less attenuated and less sharply 

 pointed, and the third is comparatively longer than iu 

 P. carunculata. Wing ISl-'o-lOO mm. ; tail 51-5i mm. 

 (against 170-180 mm. in P. carunculata) ; bill from end of 

 nasal tufts 25-26 mm.; metatarsus 47 mm. 



$ ad. Resembles the male, but the crown of the head i> not 

 so strongly glossed, and the back has hardly any greenish gloss. 



Young birds resemble the female, only the colour is duller 

 and more brownish, the tail lom/er, and the wattles shorter. 



" Iris dark brown, feet dark vandyke brown, bill black. 

 The lappets on the upper mandible (and the small hidden 

 wattles at the base of the lower) are creamy yellow, the 

 rugose wattle-like skin near the base of the lower mandible 

 col)alt blue." 



Habitat. Mount Goliath, Central New CTuinea,at elevations 

 of not less than 5000 feet (A. S. Meek coll.). 



Falcinellus striatus atkatus. 



F. striatus atratus Rothschild & Ilartcrt, Nov. Zool. xviii. 

 p. 100(1911). 



(^ ad. Differs from the adult male of Falcinellus striatus 

 striatus in being black instead of dec]) brown on the under 

 sui'face, and in the tips of the lower ornamental side plumes 

 being steel-blue instead of more or less bronzy green. The 

 beak is slightly larger, especially thicker ; this is most 

 apparent in the females. 



