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



I can recognize four species : — 



1. P. heraudreni Less. & Garn., from the low ground 



of North-western and Southern New Guinea and 

 from the Aru Islands. 



2. P. purpureo-violacea Meyer, from the Owen Stanley 



Eange, 4000-6000 ft. 



3. P. liunsteini Sharpe, from Fergusson & Normanby 



Islands. 



4. P. gouldi G. R. Gray, fi'om North-east Australia. 



An egg of this species was taken by Mr. W. Goodfellow 

 at Wanumbai, Aru Islands, on the 15th December, 1906. 



The egg figured as that of P. jamesi by Dr. Hartert, N. Z. 

 xvii. p. 490, pi. X. fig. 10 (1910), is referable to P. purpureo- 

 violacea and not the present species. It was taken by A. S. 

 Anthony on the Owen Stanley Mountains at an elevation of 

 6000 ft., where, as already shown, the coastal form P. kerau- 

 dreni does not occur (except, possibly, as an accidental 

 straggler), and only P. purpureo-violacea is found \cf. also 

 P. k. jamesi Roths. & Hartert, N. Z. x. p. 87 (1903)]. 



The egg of P. keraudreni may be described as follows : — 



Of an oval shape, somewhat pointed at one end and slightly 

 glossy. The ground-colour is pale pinkish with oblong spots;, 

 dashes and smears of reddish-brown and greyish-violet, 

 mostly pointing downwards and arranged round the pole 

 at the larger end. It measures 32 by 23 mm. 



" Keraudren^s Manucode was not uncommon through the 

 middle belt of the country, but was not observed either in 

 the mountains or on the coast, though of course it may have 

 been present there in lesser numbers.'^ — C.H.B. G. 



Manucodia atra. 



Manucodia atra (Lesson) ; Sharpe, Cat. iii. p. 183 (1877) ; 

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



Manucodia ater van Oort, p. 104 (1909). 



Manucodia altera Roths. & Hartert ; Ogilvie-Grant, P. & P. 

 p. 273 (1912) ; id. Ibis, 1913, p. 86. 



