28 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant o?i Birds 



Adult female. Differs from the female of L. minor in 

 having the crown brown much like the back, each feather 

 being spotted at the tip with buff, the forehead and a band 

 of feathers extending from the lores to the sides of the 

 occiput stronglj spotted at the extremiiy with white. In 

 L. minor the top and sides of the head, including the fore- 

 head, are black, generally with a band of white dots extending 

 from above the eye to the occiput, but this seems to be 

 absent in the oldest females. Again, in the new form the 

 ground-colour of the underparts from the throat downwards 

 is rufous-buff, instead of whitish. Wing 121-123 mm. as 

 compared with 110-115 in L. minor. 



a. ^ . Camp 6 A, Utakwa River, 2900 ft., 17th Jan. 1913. 

 [CB.X.] 



b-f. c? ? et (J imm. Camp 6 b, Utakwa River, 4200 ft., 

 2nd-23rd Feb. 1913. [C. B. K.] 



g-l. c? ? et (^ imm. Camp 6 C, Utakwa River, 5500 ft., 

 18th-21st Feb. 1913. [a B. K.] 



m—q. cJ et cJ imm. Camp 9, Utakwa River, 5500 ft., 

 21st Jan.-4th Feb. 1913. [C\ B. K.'] 



The types of this subspecies are a male and female, 

 specimens h and/, procured at Camp 6 b, Utakwa River, on 

 the 2nd and 23rd of February 1913 respectively. 



We have received no notes respecting this Bird-of- 

 Paradise. 



An adult female of L. s. feminina was procured by A. 

 S. Meek in the Utakwa Yalley, 3000 ft., but was mistaken 

 by Messrs. Rothschild and Hartert for the young of 

 L. s. minor. 



This female had the iris steel-blue ; bill black ; feet 

 Vandyke-brown. 



Loboparadisea sericea. 



Lohoparadisea sericea Roths. Bull. B. 0. C. vi. p. xvi 

 (1896) ; id. N. Z. iv. p. 169, pi. ii. fig. 2 (1897); Roths. & 

 Hartert, N. Z. xx. p. 523 (1913). 



