PAEADISEA. PHONYQAMA. 449 



An egg of the Great Bird-of-Paradise is of a regular oval 

 shape, slightly compressed towards the smaller end, and distinctly 

 glossy. The ground is salmon-cream- colour, longitudinally streaked 

 ■with burnt sienna and various shades of light and dark lilao-grey, 

 the streaks being chiefly disposed round the larger half of the 

 shell, the pole marked with a few spots only. It measures 1-54 

 by 1-08. 



1. Silbattabatta, Wanumbai, Wokan Mrs. E. J. Johnstone [P.]. 

 I., Am Is., 12th Dec. (W. 

 Oood/ellow). 



Paradisea raggiana, Sdater. 



Paradisea raggiana, Sharps. Cat. Birds B. M. iii. p. 169 (1877) ; Ramsay, 

 P. L. S. N. S. W. viii. p. 26 (1883) ; Sharpe, Monogr. Paradis. c^- 

 Ptilon. i. p. 48 (1896) ; id., Hcind-l. v. p. 573 (1909) ; Hartert, 

 Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 489, pi. x. fig. 3 (19J.0) ; Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, 191l', 

 p. 114, pi. iii. fig. 1. 



Two eggs of the Marqjjis Eaggi's Bird-of-Paradige are very 

 similar to that of P. apQda, but the group d is of rather a deeper 

 salmon-cream colour ^n4 the longitudinal strjeaks are rather more 

 numerous and confluent at the larger .end. They pleasure 

 respectively 1'4 by 1-05 ; q,nd 1.-38 by 'Ql. 



1. Kokada, north side of Owen Captain F. R. I3arton [P.]. 



Stanley Mts. ' ' 



1. VVamai, south side of Ow.en jC/iptain F. IJ. IJarton [P.]. 



Stanley Mts. 



Genus PHDNYGAMA, 



PhoHygama jamigsi, jS7iarj>,e. 



Phonygama jaraesi, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iii. p. 181 (1877) ; id., 

 Hand-l. v. p. 579 (1909) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 356 (1910). 



Phonygama purpureo-violacea, Meyer, Zeitschr. yes. Orn. ii. p. 375 

 (1885) ; Sharpe, MomW- Paradis. ^ PtHqn. ii, p. 5 (1894), 



Phonygammus jamesi, Sarteft, Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 490, pi. x. fig. 10 

 (1910). 



Two eggs believed to be those of James's Manucode are of a 

 regular oval shape, slightly compressjed at the smaller end ; a third 

 egg is much pointed, and all are gloss}-. The ground differs in 

 each specimen, being pinkish-grey, buff tinged with pink, or rathei- 

 bright salmon-buif. AJl three eggs are marked^ m.gstly towards tlio 

 broad end, with short more or less longitudinaj streaks or sjjots of 

 reddish-brown and lilac-grey ; in the egg wjth the pinkish-lniff 

 ground, the markings are rather indistinct and blurred, while in the 

 other two specimens the red-brown surface-markings stand out 

 rather clearly from the lilac under-markinga. 



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