CHLAMYDODERA RECONDITA, Meyer. 
Meyer’s Bower-bird. 
Chlamydodera recondita, Meyer Abhandl. k. zool. Mus. Dresden, 1894-95, no. 10, p. 2 (1895). 
Dr. A. B. Meyer has described and figured the egg of a species of Chlamydodera from Constantine Harbour, 
in Kaiser Wilhelm’s Land in German New Guinea, where it was taken by Herr A. Grubauer. 
CHLAMYDODERA LAUTERBACHI, Reichen. 
Lauterbach’s Bower-bird. 
Chlamydodera lauterhachi, Reichenow, Orn. Monatsb. v. p. 24 (1897). — Id. J. f. O. 1897, p. 215, pi. vi. 
This fine species, which I have not seen myself, but which Mr. Hartert informs me is a true Chlamydodera, 
was discovered by Lauterbach on the Jagei River, a tributary of the Ramu River in German New Guinea. 
It has been figured by Dr. Reichenow (/. cl), and is evidently quite distinct from all the other species 
of the genus. Whether the egg on which Dr. Meyer founded his C. recondita will ultimately be discovered 
to belong to C. lauterhachi is a problem with which we need not trouble ourselves at present. 
The following is a translation of Dr. Reichenow’s original description 
Adult male. Crown of head and cheeks golden-orange; nape yellowish olive-brown ; feathers of the 
upper part of the body, upper tail-coverts, and lesser wing-coverts olive-brown, with yellowish edgings 
at the tip ; median and greater coverts olive-brown with a whitish fringe at their tips ; fore-neck pale 
yellow, striated with brown, each feather having a pale yellow shaft-stripe and hrown margins ; centre 
of the throat nearly uniform pale yellow ; under surface of body and under tail-coverts pale chrome-yellow, 
the flanks banded across with pale brown ; under wing-coverts pale yellow, the longer ones with pale 
brownish tips ; tail-feathers dark olive-brown, with yellowish outer margins and broad whiter inner margins 
and tips ; quills dark brown, with narrow pale yellowish outer margins ; the shafts yellow below ; the 
secondaries with whitish tips: bill black; feet grey ; iris brown. Length 285 millitn., wing 130, tail 110, 
hill 22, tarsus 40. 
There is no specimen of C. lauterhachi in England, the type being unique in the Berlin Museum, so I 
have been unable to give a figure of the species. 
