MANUCODIA CHALYBEATA (Pennant). 
Green Manucode. 
Le CalyU de la Nouvelle Guinee, Daubent. PL Enl. iii. pi. 364— Montbeill. Hist. Nat. Ois. iii. p. 200 (1775). 
Oiseau de Paradis verd, Sonn. Yoy. Nouv. Gum. p. 164, pi. 99 (1776). 
Le Chalybe, Forst. Zool. Ind. p. 38 (1781). 
Paradisea chalyhata, Penn. Faunula Indica, in Forst. Zool. Ind. p. 40 (1781). 
Blue-green Paradise Bird, Lath, Gen. Syn. i. pt. 2, p. 482 (1782). 
Manucodia chalyiea, Bodd. Tabl. PL Enl. p. 39 (1783). — Sclater, Pr. Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. p. 162 (1858). — Gray, Cat. 
B. New Guin. p. 37, pt. (1859). — Elliot, Mon. Parad. pi. 6 (1873). — Salvad. Ann. Mus. Gen. vii. 
p. 781 (1875).— -Pavesi, op. cit. ix. p. 74, fig. 9 (1876). — Gould, B. New Guin. i. pi. 34 (1877). 
D’Hamonv. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, xi. p. 510 (1886). 
Paradisea viridis, Scop. Del. Flor. et Faun. Insub. ii. p. 88 (1786). — Grn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 402 (1788). 
Paradisea chalyiea, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 197 (1790). — Shaw, Gen. Zool. vii. p. 504, pi. 71 (1809). 
Le Calibe, Audeb. et Vieill. Ois. Dor. ii. p. 24, pi. 10 (1802). — Levaill. Ois. de Paradis, p. 64, pi. 23 
(1806). 
Cracticus chalybeus, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. v. p. 355, pi. b 30. fig. 1 (1816). — Id. Enc. Meth p. 901 
(1823). — Steph. in Shaw’s Gen. Zool. xiv. pt. 2, p. 61 (1826). 
Barita viridis, Cuv. Regn. An. i. p. 340 (1817). — Less. Man. i. p. 140 (1828). 
Barita chalyiea, Wagl. Syst. Av. Paradisea, sp. 2 (1827). — S. Mull. Verhandl. Land- en Volkenk. p. 22 
(1839-44). — Temm. Pl. Col. Tab. Meth. p. 9 (1840). 
Chalybceus paradiseus, Cuv. Regn. An. i. p. 354 (1829). 
Phonygama chalybams, Less. Tr. d’Orn. p. 344 (1831). 
Phonygama chalyiea, Swains. Classif. B. ii. p. 264 (1837). — Finsch, Neu-Guinea, p. 173 (1865). 
Phonygama viridis, Less. Compl. de Buff., Ois. p. 404 (1838). — Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 303 (1846). — Bp. Consp. Av. i. 
p. 368 (1850). 
Manucodia viridis, Gray, Gen. and Subgen. B. p. 65 (1855). — Id. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 194. — Id. Cat. B. New Guin. 
p. 59, pt. (1859).— Id. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 436. — Id. Hand-1. B. ii. p. 17, no. 6257, pt. (1870). — Scl. 
P. Z. S. 1876, p. 414. — Musschenbr. Dagboek, pp. 195, 228 (1883).— Rosenb. Mitth. orn. Ver. Wien, 
1885, p. 40. 
Chalybaea viridis, Schl. Handl. Dierk. i. p. 334 (1857). — Id. Dierent. Vog. p. 175. — Id. Ned. Tijdschr. Diei’k. iv. 
p. 49 (1871). 
Chalybceus viridis, Schl. Mus. P.-B., Coraces, p. 122 (1867). — Sundev. Meth. Av. Tent, p.45 (1872). — Rosenb. 
Malay. Arch. pp. 370, 558 (1879). 
Manucodia chalybeata, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Gen. vii. p. 968 (1875), ix. p. 189 (1876), x. p. 156 (1877). — D’Alb. et 
Salvad. op. cit. xiv. p. 94 (1879). — Meyer, Abbild. Vog.-Skelet. p. 5, Taf. vii. et vii. a (1879). — Salvad. Orn. 
Papuasia, ii. pp. 498, 680 (1881). — Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xvi. p. 442 (1882). — Salvad. Orn. 
Papuasia, iii. p. 551 (1882) — Guillem. P. Z. S. 1885, p.646. — Meyer, Zeitschr. ges. Orn. ii. p.374 
(1885). — Salvad. Ibis, 1886, p. 155. — Finsch & Meyer, t. c. pp. 241, 242. — Salvad. Agg. Orn. Pap, ii. 
p. 147 (1890). 
Manucodia atra, D’Alb. (nec Less.) Sydn. Mail, 1877, p. 248. — Id. Ann. Mus. Gen. x. p. 20 (1877). — Rams. 
Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. iii. p. 101, pt. ? (1877). 
Manucodia chalybata, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. iii. p. 182 (1877).— Eudes-Deslongch. Ann. Mus. d’Hist. Nat. 
Caen, i. p. 43 (1880). 
Considering the number of years that this species has been known to science, it is certainly curious that 
so little has been recorded concerning its manners and habits ; and, as will be seen below, even the exact 
characters of its plumage and its differences from allied species are still matters of some conjecture. 
The Green Manucode is principally known from New Guinea, but it cannot be said to be as common 
as M. atra in any part of the great island. The most perfect specimen which I have yet seen was obtained 
by Mr. Wallace at Dorey, and beyond that example the British Museum does not possess a single authentic 
specimen from North-western New Guinea. The species has, however, been extensively procured by recent 
travellers in the Arfak Mountains, at Andei and Mansinam by Bruijn’s hunters, and at Patat, Warmendi, and 
Profi by Dr. Beccari. D’Albertis met with it in Hatam, and Bruijn received specimens from Nappan, while 
Beccari records the species from Dorei-hum. The bird from Rubi, supposed at first to be the true 
M. chalybeata, has since been separated from it as M. rubiensis by Dr. A. B. Meyer. 
