PARYPHEPHORUS DUIVENBODII, Meyer. 
Yan Duivenbode’s Bird of Paradise. 
Craspedophora duivenbodei, Meyer, Ibis, 1890, p. 419, pi. xii. 
Parypbephorus duivenbodei, Meyer, Ibis, 1890, p. 420. — Salvad. Agg. Orn. Papuasia, iii. p. 241 (1891).— Sharpe, 
Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, iv. p. xii (1894). 
This species is known from a single specimen in the Dresden Museum. It is supposed to have come from 
some part of New Guinea, but the exact habitat of the species still remains unknown. 
In general appearance Parypliephorus resembles a Rifle-bird of the genus Craspedophora, having a green 
pectoral shield, but it differs in having a fan-like frill on the hind-neck and in not having the flank-plumes 
developed to any great extent. It is, in my opinion, correctly separated as a distinct genus from 
Craspedophora and Ptilorhis. 
Nothing is known of its habits or various plumages. 
The following is the description of the type specimen which I made in 1891 in the Dresden Museum : — 
Adult male. General colour velvety black, with a purplish gloss under certain lights ; wings and tail 
velvety black, the two centre tail-feathers metallic steel-green ; round the hind-neck a prominent frill of 
velvety-black feathers glossed with violet ; crown of head steel-green ; sides of face and throat velvety purple 
with bronzy reflections ; on the fore-neck and chest a triangular shield of rich steel-green with olive-green 
reflections, inclining to blue on the margins of the shield ; under surface of body blackish, with a bronzy 
gloss on the upper breast, becoming rather more violet on the abdomen and flanks. Total length about 
9*5 inches, culmen T7, wing 6‘5, tail 3 - 8, tarsus T5. 
The figure in the Plate is drawn from a sketch of the typical example made by Mr. Keulemans for the 
‘ Ibis ’ in 1890. 
