xviii INTRODUCTION. 
Key to the Species. 
a. Forehead yellow, like the elongated crest 
b. Forehead brown ; crown yellow or orange, ending in a long crest. 
a'. Crest very long and reaching to the mantle ; throat uniform, with scarcely any pale 
streaks 
b' . Crest rounded, not reaching beyond the hind-neck; throat streaked with pale buff • 
VIII. CNEMOPHILUS. 
Cnemophilus, De Vis, Ann. Rep. Brit. New Guinea, p. 61 (1890) 
Range. S.E. New Guinea. 
IX. PRIONODURA. 
Prionodura, De Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, vii. p. 562 (1883) 
Range. N.E. Australia. 
X. XANTHOMELUS. 
Xanthomelus, Bp. Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. (4) i. p. 122 (1854) 
Range. New Guinea. 
Key to the Species. 
a. Head, neck, and mantle golden orange 
b. Head, neck, and mantle fiery red 
XI. SERICULUS. 
Sericulus, Swains. Zool. Journ. i. p. 476 (1825) ” 
Range. Australia. 
XII. CHLAMYDODERA. 
Calodera (nec Naum.), Gould, P. Z. S. 1836, pp. 106, 145 
Chlamydera, Gould, B. Austr. part i. (cancelled, 1837) 
Calidera, Agassiz, Nomencl. Zool. Ind. Univ. p. 58 (1846, nom. emend.). 
Chlamydodera, Agassiz, t. c. p. 82 (1846, nom. emend.). 
Range. Australia, New Guinea. 
Key to the Species. 
a. Breast and abdomen not yellow ; crown of head not orange. 
a'. Sexes alike ; no nuchal hand of bright lilac ; under tail-coverts fawn-coloured like 
the breast ; throat pale, longitudinally streaked with dusky ; head and hind-neck 
uniform ; back minutely spotted and streaked with white 1 
b' . Sexes different; a nuchal band of bright lilac in the males. 
d' . Upper surface mottled all over with reddish spots and bars at the end of the 
feathers ; throat and sides of body with spots or bars of dusky brown . . 2 
a 3 . Head rufous-brown, varied with blackish edgings and spots ; throat light 
reddish, with a few dusky margins to the feathers 3 
b 3 . Head silvery brown, with slightly indicated rufous bars, the bases of the 
feathers black ; throat and chest fulvescent, mottled with dusky blackish 
centres and margins to the feathers A 
1. flamfrons. 
2. inornata. 
3. suba laris. 
Type. 
C. macyregori. 
Type. 
P. newtoniana. 
Type. 
X. aureus. 
1. aureus. 
2. a r dens. 
Type. 
S. melinus. 
Type. 
C. maculatci. 
C. maculata. 
. cermnwentris . 
!, maculata. 
. occipitalis. 
guttata. 
