PAROTIA BERLEPSCHI, Kleins chm. 
Count yon Berlepsch’s Bird of Paradise. 
Parotia berlepscM, Kleinschmidt, Orn. Monatsb. v. p. 46 (1897). — Id. J, f. O. 1897, p. 174. 
This is an ally of Parotia carolce, from which it only differs in some few characters. On the hack there 
is a wash of golden brown ; the commissure of the hill is more curved, and the bill is higher than in 
P. carolce. The white frontal patch is also smaller than in the latter species, and the lateral feathers of the 
coronal crest lack the white tips ; hut the most striking peculiarity of P. berlepschi seems to me to he 
the colour of the cheeks and throat, which, instead of being of light ochreous or golden colour, are 
blackish with a faint reddish-brown gloss under certain lights. 
The exact part of New Guinea from which P. berlepschi comes is at present unknown, and only a few 
native-prepared skins have so far come to Europe and are now in the collections of Count von Berlepsch and 
the Hon. Walter Rothschild. 
The similarity of P. berlepschi to P. carolce has rendered a separate figure of the species unnecessary. 
PAROTIA HELENA, Be Vis. 
Mount Scratcliley Bird of Paradise. 
Parotia helence, De Vis, Ibis, 1897, p. 390. 
I have not seen a specimen of this recently discovered Bird of Paradise, which can he best described by 
quoting the original account given by Mr. De Vis : — 
“ This species bears a very close general resemblance to Parotia laivesi of Ramsay, and might be described 
in the same terms, were it not differentiated from it by the form and colouring of the crest and the non- 
elongation of the superciliary plumes ; the supranasal part of the crest is erect and very low anteriorly and 
ascends gently to the forehead ; the frontal part is suddenly elongated and forms a compressed rounded 
lobe ; the short anterior portion is bright bronze-brown ; the elevated posterior part is dark coffee-brown, with 
a paler bronze-brown reflection, and the adjacent parts of the head are similar in colour and lustre : * iris in 
both sexes yellow, pupil light blue; beak black; feet in male corneous or light brown, in female iron-grey 
Contents of stomach, fruits. Native name ‘ Kanaro.’ * 
“The females of the two species can be distinguished only by the colour of the thighs, which in P. laivesi 
are rufous, in P. helence fuscous.” 
Four males and a female were obtained at Neneba, on Mount Scratcliley, in South-eastern New Guinea, 
at a height of 4000 feet, in November 1896, 
