indebted. Since Bernstein’s death the species has been met with in Waigiou by Beccari, Guillemard, and 
Platen, and by the two first-named travellers in Batanta also. As far as can be determined, it is confined to 
the two islands mentioned above. 
Bernstein states that in Waigiou the present species inhabits the parts of the country more or less 
in the interior, and is much rarer than Paradisea rubra , which is, moreover, met with in the island of 
Gemien, where the Schlegelia has not yet been seen. Beccari says that the habits are almost identical 
with those of Diphyllodes magmfica. His specimens were obtained at a very short distance from the 
sea ; and Count Salvadori remarks that the species cannot be rare, to judge from the number of specimens 
procured by Beccari and the hunters sent by Bruijn. 
The following is the description of the sexes given by me in the ‘ Catalogue of Birds’ (7. c.) : — 
Adult male. Head bare, of a blue colour in life ; nasal plumes, lores and forehead, cheeks, ear-coverts, 
chin, and upper throat covered with velvety feathers of an oily-brown lustre; a narrow line of similar feathers 
drawn from the centre of the frontal patch down the back of the head to the hind neck, and transversely 
crossed above the occiput by a narrow line of velvety plumes which run down the side of the hinder skull 
along the sides of the neck to the hind neck ; behind the ear-coverts a small bare patch ; sides of neck and 
a band above the mantle and running down the sides of the latter metallic oily-green ; mantle bright 
yellow ; remainder of the back bright metallic crimson, the lower plumes tipped with black, forming a 
terminal fringe ; on each side of the back a border of greenish black, formed by the outer webs of the 
crimson plumes, which are somewhat curved inwards ; rump brown, washed with reddish ; upper tail- 
coverts olivaceous brown ; tail brown, the two centre feathers elongate and narrow, and, after crossing 
each other twice, ending in a ram’s-horn curve ; scapulars, as well as the lesser and median wing-coverts, 
brown, all more or less broadly edged with reddish ochre, shaded, under certain lights, with metallic 
oil-green ; greater coverts and quills brown, narrowly edged with metallic crimson like the back, these 
margins becoming broader on the innermost both of the coverts and of the secondaries, which are 
entirely fiery crimson ; lower throat and entire breast forming a shield of metallic grass-green, all the 
jugular feathers having a mesial spot of brilliant metallic blue, which is represented by a similar spot of 
brilliant green on the breast-plumes, which become developed into long square-tipped plumes on the 
lower breast, forming a kind of pectoral ruff, the lateral plumes of which are burnished copper ; remainder 
of under surface purplish brown, including the under wing- and tail-coverts ; quills brown below, edged 
with dull orange-buff on the inner web : bill black, paler and more dusky at tbe tip ; feet dull blue ; iris 
dusky. Total length 7‘ 2 inches, culmen 095, wing 385, tail 2 (elongated feathers extending 2T5 inches 
beyond), tarsus 1T5. 
Adult female. Different from the male, hut the head bare as in that sex, the feathers on the crown being 
velvety brown ; mantle brown ; remainder of the back olive-brown, somewhat shaded with golden, and on the 
upper tail-coverts with faint red ; wings brown, the greater coverts narrowly edged with dull crimson, as 
also are the quills, the secondaries having a decidedly golden gloss ; tail brown, also slightly shaded with 
golden ; cheeks and under surface of body light yellowish brown, transversely barred with narrow cross-lines 
of blackish brown, a little broader on the flanks and sides of the body ; hinder part of cheeks and chin hoary 
white, minutely speckled with brown cross-lines ; under wing-coverts and axillaries reddish, barred wdlli 
dusky brown ; quills dark brown below, edged with reddish buff along the inner web. Total length 7 inches, 
culmen 0*9, wing 3'8, tail 24, tarsus IT. 
According to Count Salvadori the young males are similar to the old females, but differ in having some 
velvety-black plumes on the throat and cheeks. 
In the Plate are represented two males and a female, of the size of life. 
