LYCOCORAX PYRRHOPTERUS ( b p .). 
Brown-winged Paradise-Crow. 
Corvus pyrrhopterus, Bp. Consp. Ay. i. p. 384 (1850, ex Temm. MSS. in Mus. Lugd.). 
Lycocorax pyrrhopterus, Bp. Comptes Rendus, xxxvii. p. 829 (1853). — Id. No tes Coll. Delattre, p.7, note (1854). — 
Gray, P. Z. S. I860, p. 355. — Finsch, Neu-Guinea, p. 173 (1865). — Bernst. Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierk. ii. 
p. 372 (1865). — Schl. op. cit. iii. p. 191 (1866). — Id. Mus. Pays-Bas, Coraces, p. 131 (1867). — Salvad. 
Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov, vii. p. 781 (1875). — Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. x. p- 185 (1877). — Salvad. Ann. 
Mus. Civ. Genov, xvi. p. 198 (1880). — Eudes-Deslongchamps, Ann. Mus. d’Hist. Nat. Caen, i. p. 46 
(1880). — Salvad. Orn. Papuasia, ii. p. 494 (1881). — D’Hamonv. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1886, p. 510. — 
Salvad. Orn. Papuasia, Agg. ii. p. 146 (1890). 
Pica pyrrhoptera, Schl. Bijdr. tot de Dierk. fol. pt. viii. p. 1, pi. i. (1858). 
Manucodia pyrrhopterus, Gray, Hand-1. B. ii. p. 17, no. 6261 (1870). — Musschenbr. Dagboek, pp. 197, 230 (1883). — 
Rosenb. MT. orn. Ver. Wien, 1885, p. 40. 
The three species of Lycocorax , which are structurally Birds of Paradise, so closely resemble the ordinary 
Crows in appearance that they may naturally be placed at the end of the family Paradisiidce, the members of 
which are remarkable for the brilliancy and fantastic arrangement of their colouring. In this position they 
are placed by Count Salvadori in his ‘ Ornitologia della Papuasia.’ 
The present species is apparently confined to the islands of Batchian and Halmahera, and it is easily 
recognized by the colour of the quills, which is reddish on the outer aspect of the primaries, the secondaries 
being brown. The general colour of the plumage is black, with very slight greenish reflections under 
certain lights. 
Nothing seems as yet to have been recorded regarding the habits of this species. 
Adult female. General colour above and below black, with a slight wash of dull oily green ; tail black, 
with an almost imperceptible wash of green on the outer web of some of the feathers ; least wing-coverts 
resembling the back ; the rest of the wing brown, becoming paler and more reddish on the outer primaries, 
the lower surface of the quills inclining to ashy brown ; bill and feet black. 
Total length 15'5 inches, culmen P75, wing 7*1, tail 6T, tarsus P75. 
According to Count Salvadori, there is no apparent difference in the colour of the sexes. 
The description and figure are taken from specimens in the British Museum. The latter represents an 
adult bird of the natural size. 
