130 NOVITATBS ZOOLOOIOAB XXVI. 1919 



41. Falcinellus striatus atratus Rothsch. and Hart. = Falcinellus striatus 



atratus. 

 Falcinellus striatm atratus Rothschild & Hartert, Ni/ij. Zool. xviii. 1911. p. 160 (Mt. Goliath). 



Tjrpe : (J ad., Mount Goliath, Central Dutch New Guinea, 5,000 ft., 

 12. i. 1911. A. S. Meek leg. No. 5100. 



42. Seleucides ignotns anripennis Schliit. = S. ignotus auripennis. 



Sdeucides ignotus auripennis Sohliiter, Falco vii. p. 2 (1911 — " DaUmaimshafeii in Deutsch-Neu- 

 guinea "). 



Type : <? ad., Dallmannshafen, 1910. 



43. Paradisea mirabilis Rchw. = Janihothorax mirabilis. 



Paradisea mirabilis Eeiohenow, Om. Monatsher, 1901. p. 186 (" Deutsoh Neuguiaea) " ; Fig. Joum, 

 f. Om, 1902. pL i. 



Type : <J ad., near Kaiser Wilhelmshafen, 1901. 



This species is closely allied to Janihothorax bensbachi, of which only the 

 type in Leyden is known. Of J. mirabilis we have, in the Tring Museum, now 

 another specimen with the elongated central tail-feathers, but flat and without 

 legs, in the old Papuan preparation. If more material is known and available 

 for comparison, it is not impossible that J. mirabilis turns out to be the same 

 as J. bensbachi, in which, however, head and neck are more glittering green 

 and golden, and the flank-plumes all dark brown. When will a collector 

 succeed in reaching the place where this, and about a dozen other species of 

 Paradiseidae, of which the home is still unknown, live ? 



DICRUBIDAE. 



(The Dicruridae are, in Sharpe's Handlist, most judiciously placed next 

 to the Paradiseidae to which they are, in my opinion, nearest related. Only 

 recently E. C. Stuart Baker called my attention to the striking similarity of 

 many of their eggs to typical Paradisea eggs. ) 



44. Dissemums paradiseus johni Hart. = Dissemurus paradiseus johni. 

 Dissenmrus paradiseus johni Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1902, p. 580 (Hainan). 



Type : (Jad., Five Finger Mts., Hainan, 9.iv. 1899. John Whitehead leg., 



No. 72. 



45. Bachanga palawanensis Whiteh. = Dicrurus cineraceus rebaptizatus, 



nom. nov. 

 Bwhanga palauxmensis Whitehead, Ibis, 1890. p. 47 (Palawan). 



Type : <? ad., Taguso, Palawan, 3. vii. 1887. John Whitehead leg. No. 

 1491. 



If Buchanga is united with Dicrwrus, this form must be renamed, and I 

 call it therefore Dicrurus cineraceus rebaptizatus, the type being the type speci- 

 men of palawanensis. This becomes necessary because there is already a 

 Dicrurus palawanensis of Tweeddale, 1878. 



(Under the name of Dicrurus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. ix. p. 585, 



