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tip, but with the vanes much narrower along the middle 

 third. 



Ath plumage. As in the third plumage, but the chest is 

 very deep chocolate-brown glossed with purplish and the 

 leno-thened middle pair of tail-feathers are replaced by wires, 

 as in the adult ; there is still no trace of the ornamental side- 

 plumes. 



5th plumage. As in the fourth plumage, but with long 

 ornamental side-plumes. The bird is now in adult plumage, 

 but the side-plumes are not so long or so fully developed 

 as in the sixth and subsequent years. 



As might be expected, these changes are sometimes 

 retarded in captivity when the bird is not taking exercise or 

 receiving its proper diet. 



" The New Guinea Bird-of-Paradise was only observed in 

 what may be termed the middle belt, that is to say, it was 

 not seen near the coast and only extended on to the very 

 first foothills of the mountain-range. Its call and habits 

 appear to be very similar to those of P. apoda ; and the adult 

 males were seen disporting themselves in the taller trees, 

 no fewer than eight being observed on one tree by one of the 

 men."— C.H.B.G. 



*Paradissea minor. 



Paradisea minor Shaw ; Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, 1905, 

 pp. 429-440, pi. viii., text-figs. 22-26 ; van Oort, p. 103 

 (1909). 



Females of the Lesser Bird-of-Paradise are recorded from 

 Etna Bay. The Pygmies often brought plumes of this species 

 to Parimau and traded them with the natives, but the species 

 was not found on the Mimika, the Charles Louis Mountains 

 probably forming its southern boundary. 



Cicinnunis regius claudii, subsp. n. (Text-figs. 1 & 2.) 

 Cicinnurus regius van Oort (nee Linn.), p. 102 (1909) ; 



Ogilvie-Grant, P. & P. p. 268 (1912) ; id. Ibis, 1913, p. 81; 



Hoths. & Hartert, N. Z. xx. p. 521 (1913). 



Adult male. Differs from C. r. cocdneifrons Roths, in 



