TRICHOPARADISEA GULIELMI (Cab.). 
Emperor of Germany’s Bird of Paradise. 
Paradisea gulielmi, Cabanis, J. f. 0. 1888, p. 119. 
Paradisea gulielmi tertii, Cabanis, J. f. O. 1889, tab. i. — Salvad. Agg. Orn. Papuasia e delle Molucche, p. 158 
(1890). — Madarasz, Aquila, i. p. 90 (1894). 
Trichop aradisea gulielmi, Meyer, Abhandl. k. zool. Mus. Dresden, 1892-93, p. 20 (1893). — Sharpe, Bull. Brit. 
Orn. Club, iv. p. xiii (1894). 
This fine species of Bird of Paradise, for which Dr. Meyer has rightly instituted a new generic name, was 
discovered in German New Guinea, and named after the Emperor of Germany hy Professor Cabanis. 
The exact locality of the species was not known till Mr. Geisler procured the species in the mountains to 
the north of Huon Gulf, where it was found not lower than 800 feet. It has also been found by the late 
Mr. Feniehel in the Finisterre Mountains at a height of about 1600 feet, where it is called hy the natives 
‘ Chanbi.’ Captain Cotton and Captain Webster procured a series of specimens on the Sattelherg Mountain 
in the Finisterre range, on their recent expedition, for the Hon. Walter Rothschild, who has presented a 
fine pair of birds to the British Museum, from which the following descriptions are taken : — 
Adult male . General colour above maroon-brown, washed on the lower back with straw-yellow ; the whole 
of the hinder neck, mantle, and upper hack, as well as the lesser wing-coverts, bright straw-yellow ; remainder 
of the wing-coverts, quills, upper tail-coverts, and tail-feathers maroon-brown, the two centre tail-feathers 
represented hy long brown shafts, devoid of webs ; crown of head metallic grass-green, as well as the sides 
of the face and entire throat and chest; the green cap approaching a point on the nape, which is deeper 
straw-colour, extending down the sides of the neck in a sharply defined line from the green throat-shield ; 
remainder of under surface of body deep maroon, velvety on the breast, the abdomen rather more blackish, 
with a pale yellowish-white patch on each side ; long flank-plumes white, the feathers with hair-like and 
dissociated webs, some of the upper long flank-plumes being dark maroon-brown like the breast, the inner 
long plumes being golden yellow ; under wing-coverts and quill-lining dark maroon-brown : “ hill and 
feet reddish brown; iris reddish brown” ( Feniehel ). Total length 13 inches, eulmen 1T5, wing 6'7, 
tail 4*4, centre tail-feathers 18’5, tarsus 1*8. 
Adult female. Similar to the male, but much duller in colour and wanting the ornamental flank-plumes, 
the crown and throat being blackish chocolate of a velvety character, the shape of the yellow on the 
hinder crown being the same as in the male, but the yellow much duller in colour, as well as the straw- 
yellow on the breast, this colour being washed with greenish grey ; the lesser wing-coverts entirely of a 
greenish-grey colour; the same crossing the fore-neck in an indistinct band; remainder of the under surface 
from the chest downwards dark maroon-brown ; the flank-plumes a little longer, hut of the same colour 
as the breast. Total length 13 - 3 inches, eulmen D5, wing 6*6, tail 4*5, tarsus D75. 
A younger female, from the Sattelherg Mountain, lent me by Mr. Rothschild, is paler than the female 
bird described, especially on the under surface of the body, which is pale maroon or dull vinous, with 
indistinct mottlings of dusky cross-bars, nearly obsolete and scarcely distinguishable, the pale straw-colour 
of the sides of the neck extending across the fore-neck below the blackish throat. 
The three specimens from the Rothschild Museum described above are figured in the Plate. The adult 
male and female have been presented by him to the British Museum. 
