39 [Vol. xix. 



" Quite recently I noticed that one of tliese birds appeared 

 to be developing distinct traces of the dark throat and 

 pectoral band characteristic of M. castaneithorax, and I 

 exhibit this specimen to-night with the object of ascertaining 

 the opinion of Members of the Club as to the cause of this 

 abnormal phase of plumage. I do not believe that it is 

 directly caused by the result of a life in captivity. Captivity 

 is often responsible for partial melanism or albinism, or a 

 slight darkening or lightening of the plumage, but it can 

 hardly account for the development of distinct markings 

 such as the present specimen exhibits. Possibly the bird is 

 a hybrid ; but if so, it is somewhat remarkable that it should 

 have been so long in developing any of the characteristics of 

 M. castaneithorax. It must have been at least three years 

 old when it moulted into the plumage in which it now 

 appears. Several other specimens of M. flaviprymna have 

 been noticed to develop this singular phase of plumage." 



Mr. W. R. Ogilvie- Grant exhibited and described as 

 follows an example of a new King-Bird-of -Paradise procured 

 in the Cyclops Mountains, Northern Dutch New Guinea, by 

 Mr. Walter Goodfellow :— 



CiCINNURUS GOOCFELLOWI, Sp. n. 



Adult male. Most nearly allied to C. lyogyrus, Currie 

 [c/. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. pp. 497-499, pi. xvii. (1900)], 

 having a similar wide green pectoral shield. It differs, 

 however, in having the general colour of the upperparts of 

 a bright orange-crimson, lighter than in C. regius ; the chin 

 and the upper part of the throat orange-red, shading into 

 dull crimson with purple reflections on the lower throat and 

 fore-neck ; in lacking all trace of the buff tips to the feathers 

 of the fore-neck, which in C. lyogyrus and the other species 

 of the genus form a marked convex line dividing the dull 

 crimson of the fore-neck from the green of the upper breast; 

 and in having the flank-feathers dark sooty-brown glossed 

 with coppery-purple. Iris dark brown ; bill yellow ; feet 

 dark cobalt-blue. 



