PHONYGAMA GOULDI (Gray). 
Gould’s Manucode. 
Manucodia keraudreni (nec Less.), Gould, Birds of Australia, Suppl. pi. 9 (1855). 
Manucodia gouldi, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1859, p. 158, note. — Gould, Handb. B. Austr. i. p. 236 (1865). — Gray, 
Hand-1. B. ii. p. 17, no. 6259 (1870). — Masters, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, i. p. 50 (1877). 
Phonygama gouldi, Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. iii. p. 181 (1877). — Finsch, Vog. der Siidsee, p. 37 (1884). 
Manucodia (Phonygama') gouldi, Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 11 (1888). 
Phonygama keraudreni (nec Less.), Witmer Stone, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1891, p. 448. 
This species represents in the Cape York Peninsula of Australia the species of Phonygama which inhabit 
New Guinea, such as P. keraudreni, P. jamesi, P. purpureo-violacea, and P. hunsteini. In the occurrence 
of a true Phonygama in North-eastern Australia we may have a parallel case to the other Papuan forms 
which are met with on the Australian continent, viz. Casuarius, Tanysiptera, Craspedophora, See. 
Gould’s Manucode was discovered in the Cape York Peninsula by the late John Maegillivray during the 
voyage of the ‘Rattlesnake.’ For some time it was believed by Gould to be identical with P. keraudreni 
of New Guinea, but the differences were pointed out hy Gray, and the species is now generally admitted 
to be distinct. It is a green bird and has the wings green, like the rest of the plumage, without any of 
the steel-blue or purple reflections seen in the New Guinea forms. 
Dr. Otto Finsch met with the species near Somerset in the Cape York Peniusula, where he found it 
by no means common. It keeps out of sight, but its cry is often heard and resembles the bray of a 
child’s toy-trumpet. 
The following description is taken from my third volume of the ‘ Catalogue of Birds ’: — 
General colour steel-green, of a somewhat oily-green cast on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; wings 
coloured like the back, the coverts and the outer webs of the quills with a slight shade of purplish blue, this 
colour being also faintly indicated on the interseapulary region ; wings black on the inner wehs, excepting 
the innermost secondaries, which are bluish green ; tail black, glossed with deep purplish blue, the feathers 
greenish on their outer edges under certain lights ; head green, as also the two long tufts projecting from 
each side of the occiput ; sides of face, throat, and underparts green, the abdomen with an oily-green shade, 
the feathers of the throat pointed and lanceolate, these parts somewhat shaded with steel-blue under certain 
lights : hill and legs black ; “ iris ochre-yellow ” (0. Finsch). Total length 1 1*5 inches, culmen 1*25, wing 6T5, 
tail 545, tarsus l - 55. 
It has not been considered necessary to give a separate figure of this species. 
