DIPHYLLODES HUNSTEINI, Meyer. 
Himstein’s Bird of Paradise. 
Diplnjllodes chrysoptera (nec Gould), Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xvi. p. 443 (1882). — Salvad. Orn. Papuasia, 
iii. p. 553 (1882). — Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. viii. p. 15 (1883). — Meyer, Zeitschr. ges. Orn. 
ii. p. 387 (1885). — Id. Ibis, 1886, p. 255. — D’Hamonv. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1886, p. 510. — Salvad. 
Agg. Orn. Papuasia, ii. p. 161 (1890). — Goodwin, Ibis, 1890, p. 153. — Meyer, J. f. O. 1892, p. 262. 
Diplnjllodes hunsteini, Meyer, Zeitschr. ges. Orn. ii. p. 389 (1885). — Id. Ibis, 1886, p. 256. — D’Hamonv. Bull. 
Soc. Zool. France, 1886, p. 510.— Salvad. Agg. Orn. Papuasia, ii. p. 162 (1890).— Id. op. cit. iii. p. 242 
(1891).— Meyer, J. f. O. 1892, p. 262.— Sharpe, Bull. B. O. C. iv. p. iii (1894). 
Diplnjllodes magnified (nec Penn.), De Vis, Ann. Rep. Brit. New Guinea, p. 61 (1890). — Id. Colonial Papers, 
no. 103, p. 113 (1890).— Id. Ibis, 1894, p. 37. 
Diplnjllodes chrysoptera septentrionalis, Meyer, J. f. O. 1892, p. 261. — Id. Abhandl. k. Zool. Mus. Dresden, 1892-93, 
no. 3, p. 22 (1893). 
Diplnjllodes septentrionalis, Sharpe, Bull. B. O. C. iv. p. iii (1894). — Madarasz, Aquila, i. p. 91 (1894). 
This is the form of Golden-winged Bird of Paradise found in the south-eastern portion of New Guinea, At 
one time I believed it to be the same as D. chrysoptera of Gould, but recent experience has shown me that it 
is a distinct species. Though it has the same golden colour on the wings as D. chrysoptera , it may easily he 
recognized by its lighter crimson mantle. 
Diphyllodes Imnstemi was described by Dr. Meyer from a specimen obtained in the Horseshoe Range 
of the Owen Stanley Mountains by the late Carl Hunstein. The specimen was not fully adult, but differed 
from D. chrysoptera in its more brilliant orange-red wings, longer nasal plumes, and other minor characters, 
which seemed to Dr. Meyer to warrant its specific separation. 
Having now seen a considerable series of specimens from the mountains of South-eastern New Guinea, I 
believe that there is but one species of Diplnjllodes to be found there ; and as it is not D. chrysoptera of Gould, 
it must hear the name of D. hunsteini of Meyer, The British Museum received the two specimens figured 
in the accompanying Plate from the same collection. Both were presented to the Museum by the late 
Hon. Hugh Romilly ; and this fact is pretty conclusive that the more brilliant orange-golden wing is a sign of 
age in the bird, as both forms occur in the same locality. The Hon. Walter Rothschild has lent me several 
specimens of D. septentrionalis from the Finisterre Mountains in German New Guinea, collected by 
Capts. Webster and Cotton, and after comparing them with a number of others from the Astrolabe Range 
in the British Museum and the Rothschild collection, I believe that they cannot be separated from D. hunsteini. 
Dr. Meyer does not claim for his D. septentrionalis more than sub-specific value, and he recognizes that the 
species of Diphyllodes vary gradually from east to west; but the only difference that I can find in 
D. septentrionalis is that the mantle is slightly darker, and on comparing half a dozen specimens of this race 
with D. hunsteini from the Astrolabe Range, there are some individuals which cannot be distinguished. I have 
therefore united the two forms. 
Mr. Goodwin tells me that the present species is apparently a bird of the interior of New Guinea, as it 
was only met with by Sir William Macgregor’s expedition on their reaching Mount Knutsford. 
D. hunsteini may be described as very similar to D. chrysoptera, but differing in the lighter crimson 
colour of the mantle-patch. Total length 7 inches, culmen 09, wing 43, tail L8, tarsus 1T5. 
The female is rather lighter brown than the female of D. magnified , and is more rufous on the head 
and ear-coverts. The wings are slightly more golden, and the cross-bars on the under surface more 
dusky and less pronounced. 
The Plate represents two adult males, of the natural size, from the Astrolabe Mountains, and a reduced 
figure of a female bird from the same locality. 
