newly described Birds-of -Paradise. Ill 



? . Like that of F. s. striatus, but tlic upper surface, 

 especially the tail, is more olive^ less rufous, and the crowu 

 generally somewhat darker rufous. 



Habitat. Mt. Goliath, Central New Guinea, at an elevation 

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



Since the article by Dr. Ernst Hartcrt '*0n the Egj^s of 

 the Paradiseidre," in Nov. Zool. xvii. pp. 484-491 (1910), 

 Mr. Ogilvie-Grant, in the current number of the present 

 journal, is figuring and describing some hitherto unfigured 

 and undescribed eggs of Paradise-Birds, but the following- 

 two have, so far as I know, not yet been described, though 

 I mentioned them in ray previous article in a footnote : — 



ASTRAPIA ROTHSCHILDI. 



Astrapia rothschildi Foerster. 



The eggs oi Astrapia are of a similar type to those of true 

 Paradisea, but have a less glossy surface, while the underlying 

 shell markings are more numerous. The blotches and 

 streaks are also wider and less elongated. Ground-colour of 

 the egg in the Tring jMuseum pinkish cinnamon with a 

 number of pale liver-brown blotches at the larger end, 

 a number of underlying lavender streaks all over the sur- 

 face, and one or two larger and darker round the centre. 

 A second specimen belonging to Professor Foerster has a 

 somewhat paler ground-colour. Length 37 mm. ; breadth 

 28*5 mm. 



Rawlinson Mts., German New Guinea (Keysser coll.). 



Paradisea gulielmi Cab. 



The two eggs in the Tring Museum (which the collector 

 states are a clutch) are so different one from the other that 

 I am almost certain that they are eggs of two different 

 individuals. As, however, P. axujustce-victoricR and P. minor 

 finschi are not found so high up in the mountains as where 

 these eggs were taken, there is little doubt that they are 

 both really eggs of P. gulielmi. These eggs differ at a 

 glance from those of the two other above-mentioned forms of 

 Paradisea in that the longitudinal streaks are much thinner 

 and more widely separated. 



