128 XovraATBS ZooLoaiOAiE XXVI. 1919. 



27. Lophorina minor latipennisTRothsch. = Lophorina superba latipennis. 

 Lophorina minor latipennis Eothsohild, Bull, B.O. Club, xix. p. 92 (1907 — Rawlinson Mountains). 



Type : (J ad., Rawlinson Mts., German New Guinea, December 1905 or 

 January 1906. Carl Wahnes leg. 



L. minor is a subspecies of L. superba, which therefore consists of L. superba 

 superba, L. superba latipennis, and L. superba minor. 



28. Parotia duivenbodei Rothsch. = Parotia duivenbodei. 

 Parotia duivenbodei Bothschild, Bull. B.O. Club, x. p. 100 (1900— Dutch New Guinea), 



Type : Adult male purchased from van Renesse van Duivenbode. Eutch 

 New Guinea ; bought from native hunters. 



There is now a specimen in the Paris Museum, with no supra-orbital flags 

 at all ! 



29. Parotia carolae meeki Rothsch. = Parotiaearolae meeki. 

 Parotia carolae meeki Rothschild, BuU. B.O. Club, xxvii. p. 35 (1910 — Snow Mountains). 



Type : S jun. (or moulting from off-plumage into nuptial), Lower Snow 

 Mountains near Utakwa River, 2,500 feet, l.viii. 1910. No. 4558. A. S. Meek 

 Coll. 



30. Parotia wahnesi Rothsch. = Parotia wahnesi. 



Parotia wahnesi Rothschild, "Two New Biids of Paradise,'" p. 2 (1906 — "Mountains of German 

 New Guinea ") ; see also Bull. B.O, Club, xix. p. 8 (October 1906) ; Ibis, 1911, pi. vL 



Type : <S fere ad., Rawlinson Mountains, Kaiser Wilhelm Land, December 

 1905 — January 1906. Carl Wahnes leg. 



31. Paradigalla brevicauda Rothsch. & Hart. = Paradigalla brevicauda. 



Paradigalla brevicauda Rothschild & Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1911. p. 159 (Mt. Goliath). 



Type : 5 ad., Mt. Goliath, Eastern Central l^utch New Guinea, 22. i. 1911. 

 A. S. Meek Coll. No. 5164. 



32. Manucodia ater altera Rothsch. &. Hart. = Manucodia atra altera. 



Manucodia ater altera Rothschild & Hartert, Nov, Zool. 1903. p. 84 (Eastern (British) New Guinea, 

 Eastern Papuan Islands, and Aru). 



Type: <J ad., Sudest Island, Louisiade group, 16. iv. 1898. No. 1735. 

 A. S. Meek Coll. 



33. Cicinnums regius coccineifrons Rothsch. = Cicinnurus regius coccineifrons. 

 Cicinnurus regius coccineifrons Rothschild, Nov. Zool. 1896. p. 10 (Jobi). 



Type : 3 ad., Jobi Island, Geelvink Bay, 11. xi. 1883. H. Guillemard leg. 



t 34. Paradisea minor va^r. albescens Mussch. 



Paradisea minor ; var, albescens Musschenbroek, Bijdr, Taal-Land-en Volkenk, Nederl. Indie, ser. 4 . 

 Tii. p. 186 (1883). 



Type : S jun., with white breast and abdomen of Paradisea minor minor 

 with the plumes of an adult male of P. m. jobiensis. Bought somewhere in the 

 east by Messrs. Beal & Steere. Ex Michigan University Collection. 



