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Paradise ad K. 

 73. Paradisea ai'oda. 



\ ar. IViiUaiitnid. 



The "intensely shining orange-coloured " lateral pinnies easily 

 distinguish this hird from the specimens of P. apoda in the British 

 Museum, and from the representations given in the works of Le- 

 vaillant, Yieillot, and Lesson, &c. The yellow on the top of the 

 head and hack of neck is also of a much paler colour, both in the 

 specimens with and without lateral plumes. In Forrest's 'Voyage 

 to New Guinea' it is stated that the Great Bird of Paradise of 

 Aroo migrated "when the easterly or wet monsoon set in" to New 

 Guinea; hut we learn from the interesting paper* of Mr. A. R. 

 Wallace, that this " is quite incorrect, as they are permanent resi- 

 dents in Aru, and the natives know nothing of their being found in 

 New Guinea." The two differences previously mentioned, which 

 were uniform in all the specimens sent home by Mr. Wallace, induce 

 me to suppose that, if not a distinct species, it is at least a well- 

 marked local variety of the Great Bird of Paradise. 



Hub. Aru Islands. $ in several states of plumage. In British 

 Museum. 



71. Paradisea regia, 



"Paradisea regia, Linn. S. X. i. p. 166. 

 Cicinnurus epinturnix, Less. 



Hah. Aru Islands. <$ in changes of plumage. In British Mu- 

 seum. 



Sturnid.e. 



77>. Ptilonorhynchus mei.anotis. 



Head, neck and nape fulvous-white margined with black, and some 

 on the latter with green ; back, wings, and upper side of tail green ; 

 tips of some of the wing-coverts, of tertials and of tail feathers buffy 

 white ; throat white, narrow lv margined with black ; under surface 

 fulvous white, tinged in some places with yellow and pale green, and 

 margined with black on breast, fore part of abdomen, and sides ; 

 under wing- and tail-coverts buffy white ; bill yellow, and feet plum- 

 Ikous. 



Length 13" 6'": wings 7". 



Hub. Aru Islands. J in British Museum. 



76. CaLORNIS vikidi s( BN8. 



Lamprotornu cantor, Midi. ? 



Differs from I., metaliieu* (Temm.), in having the purple glossy 

 appearances only on the bead, nape and upper part of breast; in 

 these respects it agrees with the specimen (C nitidd) from Nen 

 Ireland, but the latter ii rathei larger in all it- dimensions j and it 



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