290 Mr. A. R. Wallace on the Ornithology 
a spatulate feather tip to the fully-developed black whalebone¬ 
like rachis. 
The Paradisea ruhra differs from its allies in the colour of the 
bill, which is a pretty clear gamboge- or ochre-yellow, with a 
very faint greenish tinge; the iris is of a blackish olive; the 
feet dark reddish or fleshy olive; the claws horny. Its voice is 
very similar to that of its allies, but less shrill, and like them 
it seems to be very abundant in its native forests, though, 
from its activity and incessant motion, by no means easy to 
procure. I several times observed the adult males on low trees 
and among bushes only a few feet from the ground. They 
crept along the branches and up the nearly vertical trunks, ap¬ 
parently in search of insects, which, I believe, they only feed on 
when their favourite food, the “ warmgin,” or Indian fig, is not 
to be obtained. At these times they utter a low clucking note, 
very different to their usual shrill call, which seems always to 
proceed from the summits of lofty trees. 
j Epimachidce are altogether absent from Waigiou. The nearest 
ally to the Paradisece is Manucodia, of which only one species 
is found. Of the rare Parrots imputed to Waigiou, Psittacodis 
stavorini and Chalcopsitta rubiginosa, I could see or hear nothing. 
In fact, I found no Psittaci that I had not previously obtained, 
and none but very common species. Of Pigeons I obtained many 
species, but few new. The most abundant Carpophaga was C. 
sundevalii , one of the hump-beaked group. The swelling seems 
equally large in both sexes. Three other New Guinea species 
occur, and also the Gilolo C. perspicillata. The Ptilonopus pra- 
sinorrhous of Ke and Goram occurred here also on the small 
islands, while on the mainland of Waigiou, P. superbus and the 
lovely little P.pulchellus are the characteristic forms. There is, 
I think, a new species, of which I got a male in Gagie Island, and 
which also occurred in Mysol, marked only with a vinous patch 
on the breast. Of the splendid lanthcenas halmaheira, Bp., or a 
closely allied species, I obtained a single specimen, and also one 
of a species of Eutrygon. Of other birds I got scarcely anything 
new, besides one or two Pedes and Myiolestes , a fine Podcirgus , 
and one or two small birds. My whole collection only amounted 
to 74 species, almost all common New Guinea birds; and I un- 
