LORIA MA RLE (Dens). 
Lady Macgregor’s Bower-bird, 
Cnemophilus maria, De Vis, Annual Report British New Guinea, 1893-94, p. 104 (1894). — Sharpe, Bull. B. 0. 
Club, iv. p. xiv (1894). 
Loria maria, Sclater, Ibis, 1895, p. 343, pi. viii. — Rothschild, Nov. Zool. iii. p. 14 (1896). 
Loria loria, Rothschild, Nov. Zool. iii. p. 252 (1896). 
This interesting species was discovered on Mount Maneao, in South-eastern New Guinea, during 
Sir William Macgregor’s exploration of this mountain in 1894, by Captain Armit and Mr. Guise, who 
accompanied the expedition. The species was named after Lady Macgregor by Mr. C. W. De Vis, and he 
afterwards very kindly sent the type specimens over to England to Dr. Sclater, who figured them in the 
* Ibis’ for 1895. These specimens have also formed the subject of my Plate in the present work, but I 
have endeavoured to give a more satisfactory rendering of the colours of this species, as the plate in the 
‘ Ibis ’ is, I regret to say, not correct. 
In May 1894, Count Salvadori described as a new genus and species of the Paradiseidce a bird from 
the Moroka district in the Owen Stanley range. Only a female was sent by Dr. Loria ; but Count Salvadori 
recognized that it represented a new form, and he named it after its discoverer, Loria lorice. When 
Mr. De Vis sent over the types of his Cnemophilus marice to Dr. Sclater for examination, Count Salvadori 
w r as so good as to allow the type of his Loria lorice to be sent for comparison, and I had the pleasure of 
comparing these two species together. I fully agreed with Dr. Sclater that C. marice was a Loria, and, like 
him, I could not advise that the two species L . lorice and L. marice were identical, because neither 
of the females sent by Mr. De Vis showed the naked line of yellow skin from the gape to below the 
ear-coverts which the type of Loria lorice so strongly exhibited, and on which character Count Salvadori 
laid emphasis in describing the genus. I have therefore kept the name of Loria marice for the Mount 
Maneao bird. 
More recently, however, the Hon. Walter Rothschild has obtained four specimens of the genus Loria. A 
female was obtained by his collector in the Eafa district of the Owen Stanley range, between Mounts 
Alexander and Bellamy. Mr. Rothschild also has a beautiful male specimen from the Sakeytanumu range in 
the Kaiari district, between Mounts Alexander and Nisbet, as well as a young male from Mount Victoria. 
Although the female bird does not show the bare oral streak as in the type of L, lorice, I perceive 
indications of it in Mr. Rothschild’s specimen, and I expect that his later conclusions will prove to be 
correct, that L. marice is identical with L. lorice, and that Count Salvadori’s name will have to 
stand for the species. Mr. Rothschild has also a trade-skin, said to have come from the Arfak district of 
North-western New Guinea, which is certainly identical with the Owen Stanley specimens. 
Adult male. General colour above velvety black with a purplish gloss ; wing-coverts also velvety black, 
the quills likewise velvety in texture, but, when held away from the light, the inner secondaries 
appear of a beautiful metallic steel-blue, glossed with purple ; tail-feathers velvety black, with a metallic 
purple shade under certain lights ; head exactly like the back, but the nasal plumes, lores, and a patch of 
feathers extending above the fore part of the eye metallic, changing under the light to greenish grey, 
emerald-green, or steel-green, sometimes showing a slight purplish tinge ; sides of face and under surface of 
body velvety black, with a purplish gloss like the upper surface ; bill black ; feet dark green ; iris brown, 
eyeball blue. Total length 8 - 5 inches, culmen 09, wing 4, tail 2'85, tarsus L5. 
Adult female. Different from the male. General colour above olive-greenish, the wing-coverts like the 
back, but the greater series with a slight tinge of orange-brown ; quills dusky brown, with a strong tinge 
of orange-brown externally, more bronzy on the secondaries ; tail-feathers dusky brown, externally 
bronzy brown and margined with olive-greenish like the back ; head like the back, slightly brighter 
and clearer olive on the lores and above the eye ; sides of face and throat and chest olive-greenish, 
like tlie sides of the body; the breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts lighter and more olive-yellow; 
under wing-coverts light tawny ; quills ashy below, with the inner webs light tawny : bill black ; feet green ; 
iris greyish black. Total length 8 - 2 inches, culmen 09, wing 3 - 8, tail 2 65, tarsus 1*4. 
