INTRODUCTION. 
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Key to the Species. 
a. Outer aspect of wings more or less purple. 
a'. Under surface of body metallic steel-green or purple ; feathers of the crown 
and throat steel-blue or metallic green, 
a". Head not in strong contrast to the back. 
a 3 . Head dark steel-blue like the back 
t/’. Head metallic green, slightly contrasting with the steel-blue of t lie back. 
b ". Head steel-blue ; back purple like the wings * 
b Under surface of body black, with scarcely any metallic gloss; feathers of 
head and throat metallic oily-green 
b. Outer aspect of quills always green and not purplish ; general colour above 
and below metallic green 
1. keraudreni. 
2. jamesi , imm. 
[ jamesi, ad. 
I ( purpureo-molacea ). 
3. hunsteini. 
4. gouldi. 
XXV. MANUCODIA. 
Mamcodia, Bodd. Tabl. PL Enl. p. 39 (1788) 
Range. New Guinea, Salawati, Jobi, Mysol, Waigiou, Ghemien, Batanta, Am Islands. 
Type. 
M. chalybeata. 
Iiey to the Species. 
a. Interscapulary region rich purple, crinkled with transverse bands of velvety 
black 1. chalybeata and allies. 
b. Interscapulary region metallic steel-green with purple reflections, but without 
recurved velvety margins to the feathers 2. atra. 
XXVI. EUCORAX. 
Encorax, Sharpe, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, iv. p. xv (1894) 
Range. D’Entrecasteaux Islands. 
Type. 
E. comrii. 
XXVII. LYCOCORAX. , 1W 
i ype. 
Lycocorax , Bp. Comptes Rendus, xxxvii. p. 8-29 (1853) L. pyrrhopterus. 
Range. Batchian, Halmahera, Morotai, Raou, Obi Islands. 
Key to the Species. 
a. Primaries ashy brown below, somewhat paler, but not white, at the base of the inner 
web. 
a. General colour black, slightly washed with green ; secondaries brown . . . U pyrrhopterus. 
b'. General colour dark rifle-green ; secondaries black, washed with green ... 2. obiensis. 
b . Primaries white for the basal half of the inner web 3. morotensis. 
XXVIII. PARADIGALLA. Type 
Paradiyalla, Less. Ois. Parad. 1835, p. 242 P. carunculata. 
Range. New Guinea. 
