Tail, 19U mm. ; wing, 152 mm. ; cnlmen, 23 mm. 
? ad. Differs from the ? of P. helenae in the much 
brighter and redder chestnut of the upper surface 
and the more rufous tone of the under parts. Feathers 
of hind-neck heavily barred with black. Interscapulium, 
back and rump more faintly vermiculated with black, 
while the whole upper parts in P. helenae are uniform 
umber-brown. Wings and tail rufous instead of umber- 
brown. 
Tail, 195 mm. ; wing, 165 mm. ; culmen, 26 mm. 
The character, however, which distinguishes this fine 
bird from all other species of Parotia, and which would in 
the eyes of many ornithologists be of generic importance, 
is the long graduated wedge-shaped tail as opposed to 
the short stumpy square tail of the rest of the genus. 
It is impossible to give correct measurements of the 
male, as the wings and tail are in moult, but the female 
has the tail 195 mm. = 7’7 inches in length, while in the 
female of P. helenae the tail is 115 mm. = 4*5 inches 
long. The tail of the male of the new bird, in moult, 
has a length of 190 mm. = 7-5 inches, while the full- 
feathered male of P. helenae has the tail 88 mm. = 3'5 
inches long. 
Ilab. Mountains of German New Guinea (Wahnes coll.). 
— Walter Rothschild. 
