AMBLYORNIS SUBALARIS, shwye. 
Orang-e-crested Bower-bird. 
Amhlyornis subalaris, Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xvii. p. 408 (1884). — Finsch u. Meyer, Zeitschr. ges. 
Orn. ii. p. 390, pi. xxii. (1885). 
Mr. Goldie first discovered this species in the Astrolabe Mountains, in South-eastern New Guinea, and his 
specimen remained with us for a long time in the British Museum before we ventured to describe it as new. 
It was, however, so evidently distinct from the Amblyorms inornata of North-western New Guinea that we 
described it at last, and events have proved that we were correct in judging from the female bird alone. 
The male, which is recognized at a glance by its splendid orange crest, was first found by Mr. C. Hunstein 
in the Horseshoe range of the Owen Stanley Mountains, and a capital figure of it is given by Dr. von 
Madarasz in the ‘ Zeitschrift ’ (/. c.). We were somewhat surprised to find that the male of this dull- 
looking species turned out to be such a fine bird, and it seems reasonable to doubt whether we really yet 
know the full-plumaged male of mornata. It is true that the nest and breeding-habits of the latter species 
have been described by Dr. Beccari, and the sexes are supposed to be alike in colour; but it is just possible 
that a crest is donned during the nesting-season by the male. 
Adult male. General colour above uniform dark olive-brown, rather more olive on the back, rump, and 
upper tail-coverts ; wing-coverts like the back, bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills olive-brown exter- 
nally, internally dark brown; tail-feathers dark brown, washed with olive-brown externally; crown of head 
with an immense crest of orange, the lateral and frontal feathers edged and tipped with blackish brown ; base 
of forehead dusky olive-brown ; hind neck lighter olive-brown ; lores ashy, sides of face, eyebrow, and ear- 
coverts dark olive-brown ; cheeks and entire under surface of body light olive-brown, streaked down the 
centre of the feathers with ochreous buff, the sides of body and flanks rather browner ; thighs dusky brown ; 
under tail-coverts fulvous, with ochreous-buff centres to the feathers, the long ones edged with dark brown ; 
under wing-coverts and axillaries orange-buff or tawny ; quills below dusky, ochreous along the inner edge. 
Total length 8'3 inches, culmen TO, wing 5'0, tail 3‘4, tarsus 1'3. 
Adult female. Differs from the male in liaving no orange crest, the head being like the back. Total 
length 8"3 inches, culmen 0'9, wing 4'8, tail 3‘3, tarsus 1‘4. •! 
Mr. Forbes has sent specimens of both sexes, killed in the rainy season. The whole of the colours are 
paler and more olive, and the ochreous tints of the under surface are much paler, especially on the under 
wing-coverts. The male is only distinguished from the female at this season of the year by the greater 
amount of clear ochreous on the underparts. 
The figures in the Plate represent an adult male and female, drawn from a pair procured by Mr. Hunstein 
in the Horseshoe range. 
[R. B. S.] 
