throat white, slightly mottled with minute dusky cross markings ; rest of under surface of body dull white, 
very numerously and thickly barred across with dusky blackish. Total length 12 inches, cnlmen 1*95, wing 
6'6, tail 4*45, tarsus T65. 
“ Young male. Similar to the adult female, hut of a deeper rufous, the head and neck rather dingier than 
the back ; a tolerably well-defined white eyebrow, the feathers edged with brown ; lores and ear-coverts 
dusky chocolate-brown, with very few ochraceous shaft-streaks ; under surface of body dirty white, very 
thickly barred across with black ; the flank-plumes elongated, but barred exactly like the breast ; from the 
base of the lower mandible a malar streak of dusky black, continued down the sides of the throat onto the 
sides of the chest. Total length 14*5 inches, cuhnen 2*3, wing 6*95, tail 4*9, tarsus 1*65.” 
It will be seen that I have not followed the nomenclature employed by me in the Supplement to the ‘ Birds 
of Australia.’ The present bird and P. alherti ought to be placed in a separate genus from that which 
contains P. paradisea and P. mctorice ; and I therefore propose to adopt Mr. G. R. Gray’s generic name of 
Craspedophora for the above two birds. 
The figures represent a male and a female, about the natural size, drawn from specimens in my 
collection. 
