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INTRODUCTION. 
Family II. PTILONORHYNCIiLDiE. 
a . Plumage black, with orange-buff primaries, tipped with black ; round the eye 
a large orange-yellow lappet 
b. With no yellow lappet round the eye. 
a . Nasal aperture entirely concealed by feathers or an overhanging wattle. 
a". With a metallic-green or golden shield on the breast or fore-neck. 
a 3 . Head ornamented with six thread-like plumes ending in a racket ; a 
large gular shield of metallic golden ; no dorsal shield of feathers ; 
flank-plumes greatly developed 
b 3 . Head without the thread-like plumes ; a very distinct dorsal shield 
of velvety black plumes . . . 
b". With no metallic shield on the throat or chest. 
c s . Nostrils shut in by a horny lobe like a shield 
d 3 . Nostrils covered in by feathers. 
a 4 . Feet very strong, when outstretched reaching to the end of the tail. 
ad. Loral plumes metallic ; tail graduated ; plumage velvety black, 
with a bare wattle along the gape and below the eye 
b 5 . Loral plumes not metallic ; tail square ...... 
a 3 . Crown with a long crest of orange or golden plumes ; 
remainder of upper surface brown 
/jd. Upper surface glossy golden, with a tuft of elongated plumes 
on the forehead 
b 4 . Feet much weaker, not reaching, when outstretched, beyond half 
the tail 
b'. Nasal aperture not entirely covered with feathers. 
c". With an erectile mantle-shield of fiery orange ; wings long, reaching 
nearly to the tail 
d" . With no ornamental shield. 
. Bill slender, as high as it is broad at base ; plumage of head com- 
pressed and dense 
/‘ 3 . Bill stouter, higher than broad at base. 
c 4 . With a lateral sub-terminal notch on the upper mandible. 
c 5 . Nostrils oval, with a posterior membrane, on which the frontal 
feathers encroach ; bill longer and thinner, its depth at the 
nostrils much less than the inner toe ; general colour brown, 
with an ornamental nuchal patch in the male 
d s. Nostrils overhung by scanty plumes, but not concealed ; bill 
very stout, its depth at the nostrils being equal to the length 
of the inner toe without claw 
r/ 4 . With a distinct festoon on the upper mandible, formed by two 
notches on its cutting-edge 
1. Macgregoria. 
2. Parotia. 
3. Lophorhina. 
4. Loboparadisea. 
5. Loria. 
6. Ptilonorhynchus. 
7 . Amblyornis. 
8. Cnemophilus. 
9. Prionodura. 
10. Xanthomelus. 
11. Sericulus. 
12. Chlamydodera. 
13. A£lUR(EDUS. 
14. ScENOPGDETES. 
Macgregoria, De Vis, Ibis, 1897, p. 291 
Range. S.E. New Guinea. 
I. MACGREGORIA. 
Type. 
M. pulchra. 
