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c 3 . Centre tail-feathers long and narrow, velvety black, with a slightly 
developed spatule at the end, the whole feather w'ebbed 
throughout its entire length ; no metallic shield on the throat ; 
flank-feathers blue, and with thread-like ends 
c. Tail square or w'ith the two centre feathers elongated, but without a 
train of ornamental flank-plumes. 
f". Tail square, with the tw r o centre feathers elongated, metallic-green ; 
round the hind-neck a frill of elongated feathers 
g" . Tail square, with the two centre feathers elongated and wire-like, very 
narrow and recurved at the ends. 
r/ 3 . With no dorsal shield, the upper surface uniform crimson ; on each 
side of the breast a tuft of plumes spread like a fan ; two centre 
feathers thread-like and ending in a racket 
ft. With a distinct dorsal shield of orange or golden. 
ft. Head covered with dense close-set plumes. 
ft. With a fan-shaped tuft of feathers springing from each side of 
the breast 
ft. With no fan-shaped tuft of pectoral feathers, but a large shield 
of green on the breast 
ft, Head bare, blue in life, with a few transverse tracts of feathers 
d'. Tail square, the centre feathers not elongated. 
h" . With two long streamers from the head, composed of enamelled flag- 
like appendages to a wire-like shaft 
%". Without ornamental streamers on the head. 
f 3 , With a large metallic triangular shield of green on the breast ; two 
white elongated plumes on the wing ....... 
g- s . Without a pectoral shield. 
c 4 . Nostrils covered with dense plumes ; plumage metallic. 
ft. Centre tail-feathers simple in structure, like the rest of the tail, 
which is “ ben ’’-shaped ; plumage glossy and metallic, with 
a pointed tuft of feathers on each side of the crown . 
r/ 5 . Tail not markedly “ hen ’’-shaped, but simple in structure, the 
centre feathers not recurved ; feathers of the neck and chest 
crinkled 
ft'. Centre tail-feathers crinkled and recurved ; feathers on the sides 
of the crown raised into a dense line of velvety plumes • 
d 4 . Nostrils exposed and not approached by frontal plumes ; plumage 
plain and non-metallic 
b. With an erect yellow lappet at the base of the bill ; plumage black ; wings 
longer than the tail, the latter pointed, with the two centre feathers produced 
beyond the others 
16. Paradisornis. 
17. Lamrrothorax. 
18. ClCINNURUS. 
19. Rhipidornis. 
20. Diphyllodes. 
21. SCHLEGELIA. 
22. Pteridophora. 
23. Semioptera. 
24. Phonygama. 
25. Manucodia. 
26. Eucorax. 
27. Lycocorax. 
28. Paradigalla. 
X. ASTRAPIA. 
Astrapia, Vieill. N. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. iii. p. 36 (1816) • 
Range. N.W. New Guinea. 
XI. ASTRARCHIA. 
Astrarchia, Meyer, Zeitschr. ges. Orn. ii. p. 378 (1885) 
Range. S.E. New Guinea. 
Type. 
A. nigra. 
A. 
Type. 
stephanice. 
