recently described Paradiseidae. 355 
the middle of the forehead of a different shade of grey and 
more uniform. 
Habitat. i Letakwa* River, Dutch New Guinea,, 2000- 
2500 feet. Collected by A. S. Meek. 
Parotia duivenbodei. (Plate Y.) 
Parotia duivenbodei Rothsch. Bulk B. O. C. x. p. 100 
(1900). 
$ ad. Pectoral shield of a different shape, structure, and 
colour and more extended than in P. helence , P. sefilata, or 
P. laivesi. The shield, in fact, consists of a much larger 
number of rows of smaller, narrower, and more scutellate 
feathers, which give it a rougher appearance. The ruff-like 
development on the sides of the neck does not extend so far 
across the throat, in consequence of which the metallic 
feathers of the pectoral shield reach further upon the throat, 
gradually diminishing in size and number. The black 
central shaft-patches on the lower laterals of the shield 
are considerably narrower and much less numerous. The 
colour of the pectoral shield is a glittering metallic grass- 
green, with some of the feathers on the edges of the shield 
washed and edged with blue, whereas in the three allied species 
the shield is of a brilliant coppery greenish-golden colour. 
There is no long erect tuft on the forehead, and the crest on 
the front part of the head is in the form of a low cushion. 
The glittering occipital band of the several allied species is 
replaced by a large, triangular, rather wedge-shaped, shield 
of glittering metallic steel-green feathers, the shield being 
edged with steel-blue and extending from between the eyes 
to the occiput. There is one long head-plume on each 
side, and the dark feathers on each side of the head-shield 
from behind the eyes are lengthened so as to form horns 
somewhat like those in the genus Phonygammus. There is no 
white anywhere on the head, and the colour of this part and 
the whole of the rest of the upper surface is of a rich deep 
bronzy purple, not glossed with oily brown as in the allied 
forms. The first and second primaries are less abruptly 
emarginate than in the nearly related species. 
