444 ME. E. B. SHARPE ON THE BIEDS OP NEW GUINEA. 



be Ms playground ; in it he dances and flutters about, as if at 

 play. The natives know his call and attract him ; but as soon 

 as he perceives any one, away he flies, and can be tempted no 

 more at that time. When not about the nest, he is to be found 

 in exceedingly high trees. His food consists of seeds. Eyes 

 dark; legs blue." [A. G.'] 



No one can doubt that this JDiphyllodes is a true Bird of Para- 

 dise ; and the above interesting note by Mr. Goldie goes far to 

 prove the correctness of Mr. Elliot's view that the Bower-birds 

 are also connected with the Paradisiidse. I have recently taken 

 a diff'erent view in my' Catalogue of Birds ;' but I must say that 

 my opinion is very much shaken, and if I were to rewrite the latter 

 work, I would follow Mr. Elliot and Count Salvadori in asso- 

 ciating the Bower-birds and the Birds of Paradise. 



The British Museum secured from a former collection of Mr. 

 Groldie's a pair of adult birds and a young male of the present 

 species, and I carefully compared them with Mr. Grould's types, 

 which are also now in the National collection. They are perfectly 

 identical, and we have now obtained from Mr. Groldie the exact 

 habitat of the species. It becomes therefore doubtful if the spe- 

 cimens from Jobi, mentioned by Count Salvadori (l. c), which, 

 according to that author, present certain diff'erences from the 

 figures of Grould and Elliot, are really the same species, and an 

 exact comparison would be interesting. 



CiciNNURUS EEGiTJS {L.)', Salvad. t. c. ii. p. 646. No. 4. 

 Taburi district. "Atea." Seems to prefer flat country, where 

 he may be found in trees thickly covered with berries, and, like 

 the two former birds, seems to stay in the same locality. [A. GJ] 

 East Cape {Sunstein). 



Ptiloehis inteecedens, sp. n. — $ similis $ P. magnificcB, et 

 eodem modo colorata ; supra pallide castanea, pileo concolori, sed 

 quam is P. magnifies clarius rufo, regione parotica et striga malari 

 sordide castaneis nee nigricantibus ; subtus multo pallidior, hand 

 ita crebre nigro transfasciata. Long. tot. 12, culm. 2'1, al^ 6'9, 

 caudae 4"3. <S similis S P. Alherti, sed rostro breviore et cras- 

 siore et pectore imo et abdomine toto purpurascente. Long. tot. 

 12, culm. 2"1, alse 7"25, caudae 4"1, tarsi 1"7. 



Hab. East Cape and Milne Bay [^A. G.]. 



" Black Bird of Paradise, very similar to the Australian Rifle- 

 bird, but has a difierent call. It calls on two notes, one deeper 

 than the other, similar to that of the Raven. Eyes and feet 



