570 THE BIRDS OF PARADIHE. [cn. xxKViii. 



1. Paradista fipoda {TLe Greiit ParadiM Binl). Are Tslaiidii. 



2. rumliisca itaimiuiit ^Tlie Lcssfor PHraJiiw llird). ^iew tiuiuea, Myool, 

 Jobie, 



3. Pamdise* rubru (TLe Udd Piuudisfl Bird). Wnigitm. 



4. Cicinnurujj reghus (Tlju KLug Pa-riuliiw Bird;. Kw Guinea, Am 

 Islimils, Jlj'iiol, tiulwalty. 



5. DipbY'llode^j gpecioea (The MaguiQceut}. Kew Guiuea, Mj^ol,^ Sal* 



t). Diplivllodea wilsoui (The Red MaRnifioent). Waigioiu 



7. Lo|)horiiui atni (The Sujierb). New GuineiL 



8. Porotia sexpennis (The CJiddeii Paradise Buxl). New Guinea. 



9. Semioptcra walbcei (The Stniiiinnl Wing}. Batchiau, Gilolo. 



10. Epiuiat'iiiis magiiua (The Loiig-taiied Pamdisc Bird). New Garner 



11. Seleucides ollm (Thfl TwLdve-wired riiradiao Bird}. New Guinea, 

 Salvvatty. 



12. Ptiloris mflprnifica (Tlie Scale-hrenst*d Pannliae Bird). New Guinea. 



13. Itiloria alherti (Prince Albort's Paradise Bird). Nortii Auatmlia. 



14. Ptiloria pajudisfji (Tlio Rifle Bird). East Australia. 



15. Ptiloris victoriiM (The Victorian Rifle Bird). Kortli-Eaat Aiiatraiia. 



16. Astnipia nijjra (The Paradise Pi«*), Ncm- Guinea. 



17. PiLradigalla cajunculata (The C'aruaculoted Poradiae Pie), New 

 Guinea. 



18. (?) Sericulus aureiw (The Paradise Oriole). Kew Guinea, Salwatty. 



We see, therefon;, that of the eigbteen species wliich 

 seem to deserve a place aniong the Birds of raradise, 

 eleven are known to inhabit the great island of Kew 

 Guinea, eight of which are entkely confined to it and the 

 hardly separated island of Salwatty. Bot if we consider 

 tliose islands which are now united to New Guinea by a 

 shallow sea to really form a part of it, we shall find that 

 fourteen of the Paradise Bhds btrloug to that country, 

 while tlirce inhabit the northern and eastern parts of 

 Australia, and one the Moluccas. AU the more extra- 

 ordinary and niiifrnilicent species are, however, entirely 

 confined to the Papuan region. 



Although I devoted so much time to a search after 

 these wonderful birds, 1 only succeeded myself in obtain- 

 ing five species during a residence of many mouths in the 

 Aru Islands, New Guinea, and Waigiou, IMr. Allen's 

 voyage to Mysol did nob procure a single additional 

 species, but we both heard of a place called Sorong, on 

 the mahaland of New Guinea, near Salwatty, where we 

 %^'ere told that all the kinds we desired could be obtained. 

 We tlierefore determined that he should visit this place, 

 and endeavour to penetrate into the interior among the 

 natives, who actually shoot and skin tlie Birds of Paradise. 



