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VIII. DREPANANAX. 
Drepananax, Sharpe, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, iv. p. xv (1894) 
Range. New Guinea. 
Type. 
D. Iruijni. 
IX. EPIMACHUS. Type 
Epimachus , Cuvier, Regne Anim. i. p. 407 (1817) • E. speciosus. 
Cinnamolegus, Less. Hist. Nat. Ois. Farad. Syn. p. 32 (1833) E. speciosus. 
Range. New Guinea. 
Key to the Species. 
a . Tail with a steel-blue or steel-green gloss ; back spangled with metallic-green or steel-blue. 
a ' . Elongated flank-plumes black ; under surface of body black, with an oily-olive gloss, 
slightly inclining to purplish 1. speciosus- 
b\ Elongated flank-plumes brown ; under surface of body brown, with a distinct olive 
shade or purplish gloss 2. meyeri. 
c. Elongated flank-plumes green, like the abdomen* contrasting with the emerald-green 
chest; throat black, followed by a coppery-red thorax 3. astrapioides. 
b. Tail and wings with a violet-purple gloss ; spangles on hack reddish-purple ... 4. ellioti. 
Sub-family II. P A R A D I S E I N A3. 
Key to the Genera. 
a. No fleshy-yellow wattle round the eye. 
a. Tail of extreme length and graduated, the central feathers broad 
like the others, exceeding the length of the body of the bird, and not 
reduced to narrow plumes or wire-like shafts. 
a". Tail twice the length of the body ; round the hind-neck a metallic 
frill 10. Astrapia. 
b". Tail four times the length of the body of the bird; no metallic frill 
round the hind-neck 11. Astrarchia. 
c". Tail shorter, scarcely exceeding the length of the body of the bird ; no 
metallic frill round the hind-neck . 12. Calastrapia. 
b' . Tail square or slightly rounded, with the two central feathers enormously 
elongated and reduced to shaft-like plumes, either very narrow and 
slightly spatulate at the ends (. Paradisornis ) or like wire ( Paradisea ) 
or whalebone ( Uranornis ), with the webs of the long flank-feathers 
disconnected near their tips and without radii. 
d" , Flank-plumes very long, full, and ornamental, reaching beyond the tail 
by more than the wing’s length 13. Paradisea, 
e". Flank-plumes ornamental, but not reaching beyond the tail by as much 
as the wing’s length. 
a 3 . Centre tail-feathers as in Paradisea , but the flank-plumes not so 
dense and having thread-like ends like a spider’s web ; on the 
throat a metallic-green shield 14. Trichoparadisea, 
b 3 . Centre tail-feathers reduced to horny shafts like whalebone, with 
no barbs or web of any kind ; flank-plumes red, with thread- 
like ends; a metallic-green shield on the throat 
15. Uranornis. 
