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black head with small round fulvous spots in the centre of the 

 feathers; lores and ear-coverts black; there are only indications 

 of spots on the wing coverts and tips of secondaries ; the whole 

 of the under surface is washed with yellowish ochre, the throat 

 and ehest only distinctiy spotted. Tot. length 11,5; wing 6; taij 

 5; tars. 1,6; bill from gape 1,46 in. 



Hab.: Mount Astrolabe (New Guinea), 



131. D repanornis Alber tisi cervinicauda. 

 P. L. Sclater, Proc. Z. S. London 1883 p. 578. 



Differt from the northern form in the mueh paler colour ot 

 the rump and tail-feathers and in the more olivaceous tinge of 

 the back. Besides this the elongated tufts on each side of the 

 breast we.re not only tipped with dark purplish blue as in the 

 northern form, but also suffused with this colour upon their outer 

 surfaces, 



Hab.: Port Moresby, S. New Guinea. 



132. Par adisea decora. 



0. Salvin und D. Godman, Ibis (6) Vol. 1. p. 131. und 

 202. pl. 8. 



S Supra sericeo-straminea, alis caudaque fuscis, rectricibus 

 mediis elongatis filiformibus, sicut ut in P. apoda] fronte anguste 

 et gula viridescentibus ; subtus lilacina vinaceo tincta, peetore 

 saturatiore, abdomine medio albicantiore ; plumis hypochondriacis 

 posticis ruberrimis, apicibus canescentibus, forma sicut in P. sang- 

 uinea, anticis brevibus, apicibus iaetissime saturate vinaceis. 

 Statura P. raggianoe. 



$ inornata; subtus gula fusca, abdomine rufo-fusco, peetore 

 fusco irrorato. 



Hab.: d'Entrecasteaux Islands. 



133. Paradisea Susannae. 



E. P. Ramsay, Proc. Lin. Soc. N. S. Wales Vol. 8 p. 21. 



Distinct from P. raggiana, although the colour of the plumes 

 is almost the same, but the tips of the feathers end in the same 

 way as those of P. savguinea. The velvet green chin-patch ex- 

 tends more than half way down the throat on P. raggiana. 

 There are no anterior tufts of plumes. The under surface of these 

 tufts are of a fiery red in certain lights. There is no Shoulder 

 bar on the wings of this new species, all the coverts being tinged 

 with yellow; it is a slightly sraaller bird and the bill is weaker 

 than in P. raggiana. 



Hab.: Island of d'Entrecasteaux (bei New Guinea). 



[Verf. giebt ausserdem eine ausführliche Beschreibung. Ref.] 



134. Prionodura n. g. 



Ch. W. de Vis, Proc. Lin. Soc. N. S. Wales Vol. 7 p. 561. 



Beak short, shallow, with a feeble maxillary tooth and a 

 regularly arched culmen compressed over the nostrils. Nostrils 

 oval, sunken, sub-basal, partly hidden by plumes and surrounded 

 by a few weak bristles. Gape wide, feebly fringed with bristles. 



