4 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant 07i Birds 



Family PARADISEID^. 



Phonygammus keraudreni. 



Phonygammus keraudrenii Less, k Garn. in Ferussac, Bull. 

 Sci. Nat. viii. p. 110 (1826). 



Phonygama keraudrenii Less. & Garn. Voj. ' Coquille,' Ois. 

 i, p. 636,' pi. xiii. (1826) [Dorei]. 



Phonygammus keraudrenii van Oort, p. 104 (1909); Roths. 

 & Hartert, N. Z. xx. p.* 520 (1913). 



Phonygama jame si Sliarpe, Cat. iii. p. 181 (1877) [Aleya, 

 S.E. New Guinea near Yule Island]. 



a. ? imm. Upper Mimika River, 6th Feb. 1910. 

 [No. 1034, G. CS.] 



b-h. cJ ? et cJ imm. Pariman, Mimika River, 6th 

 Sept.-29th Dec. 1910. [Nos. 142, 175, 177, 709, S6&, 

 C. H. B. G. ; & 1481, 1482, G. C. S.] 



i-l. (^ ? . Wataikwa River, Aug.-Dec. 1910. [ W. G. ; 

 C. H. B.G.; & No. 1455, G. C. S. ] 



m—q. c? ? • Canoe Camp, Setakwa River, 26th Oct". 

 1912-2nd Jan. 1913. [C. B. K.] 



r. $. Launch Camp, Setakwa River, Oct. 1912. 

 IC.B.K.-] 



s. S ■ Camp 3, Utakwa River, 2500 h., 14th Jan. 1913 

 [C.B.K.] 



Adult male. Iris orange or ruby-colour ; bill and feet 

 black. 



Adtdt female and immature. Iris deep yellow or orange- 

 yellow ; bill and feet black. 



, In my notes on the B. 0. U- Collection published in 

 Appendix A to Mr. Wollaston's ' Pygmies and Papuans,' 

 I rightly referred the specimens from Southern Dutch New 

 Guinea to P.jamesi Sharpe. 



Sharpe, in his ' Monograph of the Paradiseidse,' pt. iv. 

 (1895), in writing of P. keraudreni correctly refers P.jamesi 

 to the synonymy of that species : subsequently, however, in 

 pt. vii. (1897), he changed his mind and upheld P.jamesi as 

 a distinct species. I have carefully compared the large series 

 in the British Museum now available for examination and 



