collected in Dutch New Guinea. 13 



on the flats, being especially plentiful nenr the coast; but old 

 males were both wary and scarce. As a rule it frequents the 

 taller trees, often in parties of three or four. The call of the 

 adult male is a long drawn oou ending in two sharp and 

 loud notes, wah wah. The flight is swift and graceful, the 

 wings producing a curious ' wish wish ' like those of the 

 Kifle-bird."— C.iy.5. G. 



Falcinellus striatus atratus. 



Falcinellus striatus atratus Roths. & Hartert, N. Z. xviii. 

 p. 160 (1911) [Mt. Goliath, 5000 rt.] ; xx. p. 522 (1913). 



a. ? . Camp 6 b, Utakwa River, 4200 ft., 3rd Feb 1913. 

 IC.B.K.-] 



b,c. ? . Camp 6 c, Utakwa River, 5500 ft., 21st Feb. 

 1913. [C.B.K.-] 



d,e.^^. Camp 9, Utakwa River, 5500 ft., 4th Feb. 

 1913. [CB.K.] 



This handsome Sickle-billed Bird-o£-Paradise is new to 

 the British Museum Collection. It is stated in the original 

 description that in the present form the tips of the lower 

 ornamental side-plumes are steel-blue instead of more or less 

 bronzy green, but I do not find in our male that there is any 

 appreciable difference in this respect, the underparts, how- 

 ever, are deep black with a dark green gloss instead of sooty- 

 brown with a faint purplish gloss. 



The female seems to differ slightly from the female of 

 F. striatus not only in its more olive upperparts, but in 

 having the black on the throat less extended over the 

 fore-neck. 



In both male and female the tail seems to be shorter than 

 in F. striatus — in the female, at least, this is certainly the 

 case. 



Adult male. Total length ? ; culmen, from anterior end 

 of nasal opening, 01 mm.; wing 198; tail, in moult, 444; 

 tarsus 61. 



Adult female. Total length about 480 mm. ; culmen 61-G3 ; 

 wing 161-167; ti.il 260-278 ; tarsus 49-50. 



