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INTRODUCTION. 
Key to the Species. 
a. Larger : chest purple ; gular shield metallic-green ; breast and abdomen olive rifle- 
green ; chin and sides of throat black, with scarcely any purple gloss. Female huff 
beneath, with distinct sub-marginal bands of black 1. paradisea. 
h. Smaller: chin and sides of throat with a reflection of burnished copper ; gular shield 
somewhat smaller, the purple colour extending over the fore-neck, chest, and upper 
breast ; remainder of under surface more of an olivaceous green. Female fawn-colour 
below, with dusky spots 2. victories. 
II. CRASPEDOPHORA. Type. 
Craspedophora , Gray, List Gen. B. 1841, p. 15 • • . . . . . . . . . . C. maynifica. 
Range. New Guinea and N.E. Australia. 
Key to the Species. 
a. Base of culmen bare, not covered by the frontal plumes. 
a . Breast reddish-purple below the double pectoral band. Female with the head 
rufous like the back 1. magnified. 
If. Br east oily green below the pectoral collar. Female with the bead ashy brown, the 
back olivaceous brown 2. alberti. 
h. Base of culmen hidden by the frontal plumes ; bill shorter than in the preceding 
species. Female similar to that of C. magnified 3. intercedens. 
III. HETEROPTILORHIS, gen. nov. Type. 
Range. New Guinea. H. mantoui. 
IV. PARYPHEPHORUS. ^ 
Type. 
Paryphephorus, Meyer, Ibis, 1890, p. 420 P. duivenbodii. 
Range. New Guinea, 
V. IANTHOTHORAX. T 
Type. 
Ianthothorax, Biittik. Notes Leyden Mus. xvi. p. 163 (1894) • /. bensbachi. 
Range. N.W. New Guinea. 
VI. SELEUCIDES. T 
Type. 
Seleucides, Less. Hist. Nat. Ois. Parad. Syn. p. 29 (1835) S. nigricans. 
Nemgtophora, Gray, List Gen. B. 1840, p. 12 -S', nigricans. 
Range. New Guinea, Salawati. 
VII. DREPANORNIS. Type 
Drepanophorus (nec Egerton), Sclater, Nature, 1873, p. 192 D. albertisi. 
Drepanornis, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 560 (nom. emend.) D. albertisi. 
Range. New Guinea. 
Key to the Species. 
, . . . ( 1. albertisi. 
a. Tad cinnamon-rufous ; back dark reddish-brown, uniform j 
12. geisleri. 
b. Tail pale fawn-colour, like the upper tail-coverts ; back light brown, with 
indistinct mesial ovate spots of buff 3. cervinicauda. 
