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Janthothorax bensbachi Biitt. Green-headed Rifle-bird. 
Janthothorax bensbachi Biittikofer, Notes Leyden Mus. vol. xvi. p. 163, 
1894 (1895) : Arfak Mts., New Guinea. (Fig. Sharpe, pi. 8.) 
Distr. — New Guinea. 
Janthothorax mirabilis (Reicliw.). 
Long-plumed Green-headed Rifle-bird. 
Paradisea mirabilis Reichenow, Orn. Monatsb. vol. ix. pp. 185, 186, 
1901 : Kaiser Wilhelmshafen, N.E. New Guinea. (Fig. J. f. 0. 
1902, pi. 1.) 
Distr . — New Guinea (North-East). 
Genus SELEUCIDES Less. 
Seleucides Lesson, Hist. Nat. Ois. Parad. Syn. p. 28, pi. 35, 1835. 
Type : Seleucides acanthilis Lesson, ib .=Paradisea nigricans 
Shaw. 
Seleucides nigricans (Shaw). Twelve-wired Bird-of-Paradise. 
Distr. —New Guinea and Salwatti. 
Seleucides nigricans nigricans (Shaw). (3-159.) 
Paradisea nigricans Shaw, Gen. Zool. vol. vii. pt. 2, p. 489, pis. 60-61, 
1809 : New Guinea. (Fig. Sharpe, i. pis. 9 & 10.) 
Paradisea viokirea Bechstein, Kurze Uebers. Vog. p. 133, 1811 : New Guinea. 
Paradisea vaillantii Shaw, Nat. Misc. vol. xxiv. pi. 1025, 1812 : Moluccas, 
error — New Guinea. 
FalcineUus resplendens Vicillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. nouv. ed. vol. xxviii. 
p. 165, 1819 : New Guinea. 
Seleucides acanthilis Lesson, Hist. Nat. Ois. Parad. Syn. p. 29, pi. 35, 1835 : 
New Guinea. 
(ignotvs and niger of authors, cf. Cat Birds, vol. iii. p. 159, 1877.) 
Distr. — New Guinea, (North) and Salwatti. 
Seleucides nigricans auripennis Schl. 
Seleucides ignotus auripennis Schl liter, Falco, vol. vii. p. 2, 1911 : 
Dallmanshafen, German New Guinea. 
Distr. — New Guinea (S.E.). 
Genus DREPANORNIS Sri. 
Drepanornis Sclater, Nature, vol. viii. p. 192, July 3rd, 1873; id., Proc. 
Zool. Soc. Lond. 1873, p. 560. Type (by original designation) : 
Drepanephorus albertisii Sclater. 
Drepanornis albertisi (Scl.). Horned Bird-of-Paradise. 
Distr . — New Guinea. 
