CATALOGUE OF BIKDS FROM NEW GUINEA. 35 



ConviDx. 



CORVUS ORRU. 



Corvus macrorhynchus, pt., Wagl. ? 



Corvus orru, Mull. ; Bp. Consp. Av. p. 385. 



" Iris sky-blue " {Wallace). 



Hab. New Guinea; Havre-Dorey (Mutter) . 



a, b. Aru Islands. Procured from Mr. Wallace. 



Corvus ooronoides? 



Corvus corone, p., Wagl. Syst. Av. Corv. sp. 6. 

 Hab. New Guinea (Wagler). 



Gymnocorvus senex. 



Corvus senex, Less. Voy. de la Coqu. t. 24. 

 Gymnocorvus tristis, Less. Tr. d'Orn. p. 327. 

 Gymnocorvus senex, G. R. Gray, Gen. of B. ii. p. 315. 

 Hab. New Guinea ; Havre-Dorey (Lesson). 



PARADISEIDjE. 



Paradisea apoda. 



Paradisea apoda, Linn. S. N. i. p. 166. 



a. New Guinea. 



6. New Guinea. Presented by J. B. Kingdom, Esq. 



c. New Guinea. From the Zoological Society's Collection. 



Var, Wallaciana. 



Paradisea apoda, var. Wallaciana, G. R. Gray, Proc. Z. S. 1858, 

 p. 181. 



Paradisea apoda, Less. Voy. de la Coqu. i. p. 526. 



The "intensely shining orange-coloured" lateral plumes easily 

 distinguish this bird from the specimens of P. apoda in the British 

 Museum, and from the representations given in the works of Le« 

 vaillant, Vieillot, and Lesson, &c. The yellow on the top of the 

 head and back of neck is also of a much paler colour, both in the 

 specimens with and without lateral plumes. In Forrest's 'Voyage 

 to New Guinea ' it is stated that the Great Bird of Paradise of 

 Aroo migrated, "when the easterly or wet monsoon set in," to New 

 Guinea ; but we learn from the interesting paper * of Mr. A. R. 

 Wallace that this " is quite incorrect, as they are permanent resi- 

 dents in Aru, and the natives know nothing of their being found in 

 New Guinea." The two differences previously mentioned, which 

 were uniform in all the specimens sent home by Mr. Wallace, induce 

 me to suppose that, if not a distinct species, it is at least a well- 

 marked local variety of the Great Bird of Paradise. 



a-c. Aru Islands. Procured from Mr. Wallace. 



* Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist. 1857, vol. xx. p. 411. 



d 2 



