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Typem the Britis^h Museum. ^ ad. (testes larffe). B.M. 

 Beg. No. 1908. 5. 25. 91. River Ja, Cameroon, 18 Feb., 

 1906. G. L. Bates coll. 



Bill (exposed culmen) 17, wing 71, tail 5.5, tarsus 

 17 mm. 



Ohs. There are 15 specimens of this new form in the 

 British Museum and 11 of the typical bird. 



Lord Rothschild described a new Bird-of-Paradise, as 

 follows : — 



Paradisea apoda subintermedia, subsp. nov. 



Adult male. Differs from P. a. intermedia in the dull 

 cinnabar-scarlet, not brilliant crimson, of the nuptial side- 

 plumes, thus approaching in colour P. marice. The shafts of 

 the inner two-thirds of the side-plumes are also a light 

 salmon-orange, not orange-chrome as in P. a. intermedia. 

 The shoulder-stripe is also much smaller, owing to the less 

 extent of yellow on the smaller wing-coverts. There also 

 appears to be less yellow on the rump than in P. a. inter- 

 media. ^ S S ' Inland from Huon Gulf. 



This new form is one of the P. apoda group with a 

 large cushion of curled feathers on the breast. I should 

 have kept the forms without the cushion as a separate species 

 from those with the cushion, only P. a. raggiana forms a 

 connecting-link. The named P. apoda forms therefore are 

 as follows : — P. apoda apoda, Aru Islands ; P.a.novceguinece 

 from ^tna Bay to the Fly River ; P. a. raggiana, Fly River 

 to Samarai ; P. a. intermedia, Oollingwood Bay to Holnicote 

 Bay, N.E. Coast ; P. a. subintermedia, probably coast and 

 inland of Traitors' and Hercules Bays ; P. a. granti, coast 

 and inland of most of Huon Gulf west of Hercules Bay ; 

 P. a. augustce victorice, coast and inland, up to 2000 ft., round 

 Sattleberg and Rawlinson Mts. Westwards of the Sattleberg 

 Mountain to Astrolabe Bay, North records P. a. granti again ; 

 but no authentic specimens of any P. apoda form from this 

 region have been examined by me. Many of the trade-skins 

 from N.E. New Guinea have the side-plumes darker orange 

 than in P. a. augustce victorias, but not so dark or so reddish 



