ON TUE DISPLAY OF TllE MAGNIFICENT BiRD-Ol*- PAIIADISE. 609 



32. On the Display of the Magnificent Bird-of-Paradise, 

 IHpliyllodes magnijica ImnsteinL Ey D. Setii-Smith, 

 l^Z.S. 



, [Received June 9> 1923 : Read Jurio 12j 1923.] 



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At a meeting of this Society, held on February 20th, 1923, 

 I made some remarks on the nuptial display of tlio various 

 species of the Paradiaeida), and referred especially to tliat of 

 JDiphyllodeSi of which there was a male example of the form 



Text-figure 1. ; 



First attitude of display. 



from south-eapt New. Guinea (Z). m. Awnsieim) in the Society's 

 collection. The remarks then made and the drawings exhibited 

 were the residt .of brief observations, the bird having only 

 recently commenced to display j but since then it has given many 



