MANUCODIA ORIENTALIS, Salvacl. 
Eastern Manucode. 
Manucodia chalyheata, part., Finsch & Meyer, Zeitschr. ges. Orn. 1885, p. 374. — lid. Ibis, 1886, p. 241.— 
Salvadori, Aggiunte Orn. Papuasia e delle Molucche, ii. p. 147 (1890). — Id. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. 
(2) x. p. 821 (1891). — Meyer, Abhandl. k. Mus. Dresd. 1890-91, no. 4, p. 12 (1891). — Id. J. f. 0. 
1892, p. 260. 
Manucodia orientalis, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. (2) xvi. p. 103 (1896). — Rothschild, Novit. Zool. iii. 
p. 252 (1896). 
According to Count Salvadori, this species differs from the true M. chalyheata in having a more slender 
bill, and the feathers of the neck have a more pronounced blue gloss, while the feathers above the eye 
are longer in the adult bird and form two ridges. 
This form, which Mr. Rothschild regards merely as a race of M. chalyheata, inhabits Eastern New 
Guinea. It has been found on tbe coasts near Milne Bay and to tbe north of Huon Gulf, while 
Dr. Loria has procured it in several places on the Owen Stanley Mountains, where also Mr. Alfred Meek 
met with it. The adult specimens from South-eastern New Guinea in the British Museum differ from 
M. chalyheata from Dorey in having more steel-blue or green on the crown, the latter being decidedly 
purple in the Dorey bird. 
According to Dr. Loria, the bill and feet and the iris are dull red. The bird feeds on fruit. 
Of this and the following species it has not been considered necessary to give figures. 
MANUCODIA JOBIENSIS, Salvad. 
Jobi Manucode. 
Manucodia johiensis, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov, vii. p. 969 (1875), viii. p. 404 (1876), ix. p. 189 (1877). 
— Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. iii. p. 184 (1877). — Elliot, Ibis, 1878, p. 56. — Meyer, Abbild. Yog.-Skel. 
p. 56, Taf. vii. a (1879). — Eudes-Deslongch. Ann. Mus. Caen, i. p. 45 (1880). — Salvad. Orn. Papuasia 
e delle Molucche, ii. p. 502 (1881). — Musschenbr. Dagboek, pp. 196, 229 (1883). — Rosenb. Mittb. 
orn. Ver. Wien, 1885, p. 40. — Guillem. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 646. — Meyer, Zeitschr. ges. Orn. 1885, 
p. 374. — Id. Ibis, 1886, p. 242. — D’Hamonv. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1886, p. 510. — Salvad. Aggiunte 
Orn. Papuasia, ii. p. 147 (1890). — Sharpe, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, iv. p. xiii (1894). 
The Manucode of Jobi Island has been separated by Count Salvadori on the following characters : — 
The head is of a metallic green, instead of steel-blue as in M. chalyheata. The underparts are shining- 
green, and the fore-neck and upper breast are green, with velvety black transverse bands, while the 
lower breast and abdomen are of a less lustrous green without the black velvety bands. In M. chalyheata 
tbe fore-neck and upper breast are glossy green with golden spots, and- the rest of the under surface is 
steel-blue, inclining to violet under certain lights, and the feathers of the lower breast have a velvety 
black transverse band. The interscapular feathers incline more to green, and the black velvety edgings 
are less conspicuous. 
The bill is more compressed, and commences at a more acute angle in the middle of the forehead, a 
difference which is well marked and constant. In the shape of the bill M. johiensis approaches M. atra. 
