collected in Dutch New Guinea. 33 



Chlamydodera lauterbachi. 



Clilamydodera lauterbachi Reichenow, Orn. Monatsb. v. 

 p. 24 (1897) ; id. J. £. 0. 1897, p. 215, pi. vi. [North- 

 east New Guinea, (^] ; Ogilvie-Grant, P. & P. p. 272 

 (1912); id. Ibis, 1913, p. 85 [Southern Dutch New Guinea]. 



a. ? . Kamura River, 18th May, 1910. [No. 1157, 

 G. C. S.] 



Iris brown ; bill horn-black; feet pale olive-slate-colour. 



This specimen is unlike any of the allied forms ; it has 

 the underside washed with yellow and is almost certainly the 

 female of the Orange-crowned Bower-bird, C. lauterbachi, of 

 which the male was described and figured by Dr. Reichenow 

 from a unique specimen procured in North-east New Guinea. 

 Our specimen differs chiefly from the figure given in having 

 the sides of the head and crown greyish-brown tinged with 

 olive like the rest of the upperparts and in being less yellow 

 on the under parts. 



Its measurements are likewise smaller. Total length in 

 the flesh 288 mm. ; wing 122 ; tail 100 ; tarsus 37. 



The male-type was procured on the Jagei River, a tributary 

 of the Ramu River, probably at no great elevation. Though 

 the two specimens were obtained in localities so far apart, 

 there seems to be no reason why they should not be male" 

 and female of the same species. The female obtained by 

 the B. 0. U. Expedition possesses many characteristics in 

 common with the male-type of C. lauterbachi, and the 

 differences in plumage are just what one might expect to 

 find in the female of that species. 



The species is new to the British Museum, 



JElurcedus melanotis. 



u^Sluroedus melanotis Gray ; Sharpe, Cat. vi. p. 383 

 (1881). 



Ailuroedus melanotis melanocephalus Roths. & Hartert 

 (nee Ramsay), N. Z. xx. p. 525 (1913) [Utakwa River, 

 2000-3000 ft.]. 



a-d. (^ ? . Camp 3, Utakwa River, 2500 ft., 16th Dec. 

 1912-llth Jan. 1913. [C. B. K.] 



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