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emerald- green; on each side of upper breast is a tuft of long, apically- 

 rouuded, broccoli brown plumes, most of wliich are tipped witli brilliant 

 metallic yellowisb emerald-green, each feather with a very narrow, 

 inconspicuous buff line and a second, still narrower, coppery-brown 

 one just before the green tip ; outer webs of some of these plumes slightly 

 washed with orange-rufous near base ; lower breast, belly, and under tail- 

 coverts Avhite; under wing-coverts white. Scapulars crimson. Wings 

 orange-rufous, the outer webs of primaries and outer secondaries edged 

 with orange-vermilion, the inner secondaries and secondary coverts 

 heavily washed with that color, primary coverts less heavily so. Upper 

 tail coverts extending almost to tip of rectrices, orange-rufous, washed 

 with orange-vermilion; tail emarginate, broccoli brown, the outer webs 

 of feathers bordered with orange-rufous. Central pair of tail-feathers 

 with their shafts crossed near base, greatly elongated, the webs A^ery 

 narrow basally, and entire]}^ wanting beyond tips of other rectrices, 

 except on the apical 70 millimeters of shaft, where there is a loosely- 

 coiled, metallic grass-green outer web, whose greatest width is 8 milli- 

 meters; width of this web uniform for the greater i^ortion of its extent; 

 apical i:>ortion of naked, crossed shafts divergent. The green of these 

 outer webs, as also that of iiectoral tufts and shield, appears violet 

 when held in Gadow's "Position C."^ Wing, 200 mm.; tail (exclusive 

 of central shaft-wires), 78 mm. ; central pair of tail-feathers (straightened 

 to extreme tips), 330 mm.; culmen,42 mm.; tarsus, 50 mm.; middle toe, 

 37 mm. 



Ty2)€.—lSo. 124628, U.S.N.M.; "]^ew Guinea," received from A. 

 Boucard. 



1 The following table will serve to show the important structural differ- 

 ences between the two species : 



Compcwison of Cicinnurus lyogyrus ivlth C. regius. 



C. regius 



O. lyogyriis. 



Pectoral shield ' One-fourth as long as broad 



Frontai plumes l^ong, obscuring contour of head, 



reaching forward beyond middle of 

 bill. 



Tail Rounded 



Central tail-shafts \ Crossed near base, converging before 



tips. 

 Outer web at tips of I Tiglitly coiled, discoid; greatest 

 central tail-shafts, j width, 12 mm., rapidly narrowing 

 I to tip. 



■ffearly as long as broad. 



Short, not obscuring contour of 

 head, not reaching beyond mid- 

 dle of bill. 



Emarginate. 



Crossed near base, diverging before 

 tips. 



Loosely coiled; greatest width, 8 

 mm., uniform for greater portion 

 of length. 



It is unfortunate that the specimen is not accompanied by a more 

 definite locality, so that some light might be thrown upon the habitat 

 of the species. It would appear that it is either very rare or that it 

 inhabits some little-explored portion of New Guinea i)roper or, possibly, 

 some other island of the Papuan group. 



The Hon. Walter Eothschild has recently ^ separated specimens of G. 



' lu tills position the bird is held on nearly the same level with, and between, the 

 eye and the light. The other nietallio colors given in this description appear when 

 the bird is held in "■ Position B," the eye being between the light and the bird, and 

 the parts described placed vertically to the light. 



^Novitates Zooiogic*, III, 1896, p. 10. 



