8 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant on Birds 



are rather larger: males 191-198 mm,; females 181-184. 

 It will thus be seen that the difference is trifling. 



The males are brighter below than the females. 



" I was unable to distinguish this Manucode in its natural 

 habitat from the two allied species." — C.B.B. G. 



Manucodia jobiensis. 



Manucodia jobiensis Salvad. ; Sharpe, Cat. iii. p. 184 

 (1877) ; Ogilvie-Grant, P. & P. p. 273 (1912) ; id. Ibis, 

 1913, p. 86 ; Poths. N. Z. xx. p. 520 (1913). 



a. S. Upper Mimika River, 20th Feb. 1910. [No. 

 1078, C. H. B. (?.] 



b-m. c? ? et J' imm. Parimau, Mimika River, 31st 

 Aug.-28th Dec. 1910. [Nos. 63, 164, 223, 271, 290, 611, 

 700, 789, 794, 795, 860, C.H.B. (?.] 



n. ? . White Water Camp, Kapare River, 26th Oct. 

 1910. [No. 374, C.H.B. G.!, 



o. (J . Launch Camp, Setakwa River, 3rd Oct. 1912. 

 iC.B.K.'] 



p, q. ? . Canoe Camp, Setakwa River, 17th & 25th Nov. 

 1912. IC.B.K.-] 



Adult male. Iris fiery red ; bill and feet black. 



Adult female. Iris yellow ; bill and feet black. 



Immature. Similar to the female, but gape greenish. 



This species is new to the British Museum. Though in 

 general appearance much like the other curly -headed species 

 associating with it, it may be distinguished from its nearest 

 ally, M. chalybata, by having the short curly feathers on the 

 chest and breast dark steel-blue, instead of glittering golden- 

 green ; and the feathers of the mantle violet with a very 

 narrow submarginal line, instead of velvet-black changing 

 to purple, edged on either side with steel-blue. When 

 turned away from the light the mantle in M. chalyhata 

 appears to be dead velvety black. 



Both M. jobiensis and M. chalybata are easily distinguished 

 from the larger M. atra by having the feathers of the throat 

 crinkled, whereas in the last named they are nearly normal 



