collected in Dutch New Guinea. 5 



cannot find any specific or subspecific difference between 

 typical examples o£ P. keraudreni from Dorei^ Geelvink Bav, 

 and those from the Aru Islands, Southern Dutch New 

 Guinea, and South-eastern New Guinea, including the type 

 specimen of P. jamesi, from Aleya. These all inhabit the 

 lower grounds of the coastal region ranging upwards to 

 about 2000 ft., and are quite distinct from P. purpureo- 

 violacea Meyer \_cf. Sharpe, Monogr. pt. iii. (1894)], which 

 inhabits the Owen Stanley Range and its outlying spurs at 

 elevations of about 4:000-60OOft.^ and possibly ranges upwards. 

 It must, however, be mentioned that in the Tring Museum 

 there is a specimen of P. keraudreni said to have been prq^ 

 cured by Meek at 6000 ft. If no mistake has been made, it is 

 evident that the coast-form occasionally straggles upwards, 

 but this specimen in the Tring Museum is the only excej)- 

 tion I have met with. P. jamesi was wrongly united with 

 P. purpureo-violacea by Lord Rothschild (as he now admits) 

 both in 'Das Tierreich, Paradiseidse/ p. 47 (1898), and in 

 'The Ibis,' 1911, p. 367. 



The highland-form, P. purpureo-violacea, has the head 

 and neck steel-green, and the rest of the upperparts, in- 

 cluding the rump and upper tail-coverts, shining violet- 

 purple, the two colours being in marked contrast to one 

 another : P. keraudrejii has the head and neck steel-blue or 

 greenish like the upperparts, including the rump and upper 

 tail-coverts, and sometimes inclines to purplish on the 

 secondaries, but there is no strongly marked contrast between 

 the colouring of these parts as in P. purpureo-violacea. The 

 feathers of the head and neck in the adult are of a more 

 steel-blue colour when freshly moulted, becoming greenish 

 with wear, but there is also some individual variation. 

 P . purpureo-violacea, as pointed out by Messrs. Rothschild 

 and Hartert (though they wrongly refer to it as P. jamesi), 

 has the neck-hackles longer and wider than in P. keraudreni. 



The wing-measurement in males varies from 152-165 mm.; 

 in females from 148-161 mm. 



In P. purpureo-violacea males vary from 160-170 mm.; 

 females from 153-164 mm. 



