collected in Dutch New Guinea. 11 



Immature male. Iris dark brown, raw-umber or raw- 

 sieana ; bill black or sooty, gape green ; feet slate-colour or 

 bluish-ash. 



Adult female. Iris dark brown or greyish-brown ; bill and 

 feet as in the immature male. 



A large series of this Paradise-bird was collected in all 

 stages of plumage, ranging from the quite young to the 

 fully adult. 



A quite young female still retains the nestling-plumage 

 on the underparts; the feathers are much softer and more 

 downy than those of the subsequent plumage, and the dark 

 bars on the breast and belly are sooty-brown and much 

 wider apart ; the upperparts including the crown are paler 

 and more rufous. 



" The Rifle-bird was observed throughout all the country 

 traversed, but was perhaps most plentiful inland and along 

 the mountain-slopes. Adult males are much more wary 

 than females or immature birds, and the jungles resound 

 with their clear whistle, consisting of two long-drawn notes, 

 one ascending, the other descending. They will often call 

 during the night if disturbed by the falling of a tree or 

 other cause." — C.H.B. Q. 



Seleucides nigricans. 



Seleucides niger Sharpe (nee Shaw), Cat. iii. p. 159 

 (1877) ; Ogilvi'e-Grant, P. & P. p. 269 (1912) ; id. Ibis, 

 1913, p. 83. 



Seleucides nigricans (Shaw) ; Salvad. 0. P. ii. p. 561 

 (1881). 



Seleucides ignota Forst. ; van Oort, p. 101 (1909) ; Roths. 

 & Hartert, N. Z. xx. p. 522 (1913). 



a. c? imm. Mimika River, 30th April, 1910. [No. 1140, 

 G. C. S.'] 



b-p. (5" ? et c? ? imm. Wakatimi, Mimika River, 1st 

 Jan.-30th March, 1911. [Nos. 213, 217, 218, 220, 221, 

 1046, 1053, 1079, 1089, 1109, 1125, 1132, 1288, 1289, 

 C.H.B. G.] 



