collected in Dutch New Guinea. 31 



specimens from the Owen Stanley Range which have been 

 named A. i. musgrami. To the latter, and not to the Arfak 

 form, must be referred the specimens listed above from the 

 Utakwa Valley. This Bower-Bird was also obtained on 

 Mt. Goliath by A. S. Meek. 



Xanthomelus ardens. (PL I.) 



Xanthomelus ardens, D'Albert. & Salvad. ; Salvad. 0. P. 

 ii. p. 663 (1881) ; van Oort, p. 100, pi. iii. (1909); 

 Ogilvie-Grant, P. & P. p. 272 (1912) ; id. Ibis, 1913, 

 p. 85. 



Xanthomelus aureus ardens Roths. & Hartert, N. Z. xx. 

 p. 524 (1913). 



a-g. f^ ? et c? imra. Wataikwa River, 26th Sept.- 

 12th Oct. 1910. [Nos. 1247, 1325, 1337-39, 1352, 1353, 

 G. C. S.'] 



Adult male. Iris yellow ; bill flesh-colour, shading to pale 

 brown at the tip ; feet dull slate-colour. 



Male in partial adidt plumage. Like the adult. 



Immature male. Iris dull yellow ; bill flesh-colour, shading 

 into brown ; feet dark dull olive. 



Adidt female. Iris dark brown; bill brown; feet dull 

 olive- slate-colour. 



Dr. van Oort has explained the reason -why Sharpe, in his 

 ' Monograph of the Paradiseidse,' wrongly figured the 

 imperfect tvpe-specimen of X. ardens with the cheeks and 

 throat black. He has given a figure of one of the males 

 collected by Dr. Lorentz to show the scarlet sides of the head 

 and yellow throat ; but as it conveys quite a false idea of the 

 brilliant orange-scarlet colour of the head and mantle, and 

 as Sharpens figure [op. cit. ii. pi. xxv. (1896)] is largely drawn 

 from the artist's imagination and is most misleading, I 

 have ventured once more to figure this very striking species, 

 showing for the first time the female in adult plumage, 

 which was not previously known. 



Among the three adult males included in our series 

 ther^ is one especially magnificent bird (No. 1325), with 



