from a ‘ Bugis Nakoda’ (captain of a Celebes boat), to whom it bad most likely come from Has. It 
seems to me hardly probable that the female is the bird that has been described as such. I have bad 
information of this bird at Wa-Samson ; and it is not improbable that it may also be found in Salawatti.” 
The following is the description of a flat skin in the British Museum 
Crown of bead sandy buff, followed by a ruff on the hind neck of golden orange ; the mantle deep crimson ; 
lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts golden olive ; the tail-feathers dusky brown with golden olive 
margins ; the two centre tail-feathers elongated with wire-like shafts, ending in a lyriform tip where the web 
is green ; wings golden, the coverts and inner secondaries washed with fiery crimson ; throat velvety brown, 
with a golden shade, followed by a shield of velvety green, with a few green-tipped feathers on the lower 
throat, the lower feathers of the shield being tipped with emerald-green, forming a band ; on each side of 
the breast a fan of purplish feathers, broadly tipped with emerald-green ; abdomen sandy buff ; under tail- 
coverts white, with a sandy buff tinge. 
The Plate here given is reproduced from Mr. Gould’s ‘ Birds of New Guinea,’ and represents a male bird 
in two positions. Tbe figures have been drawn from the specimen now in the Warsaw Museum. 
