356 
Mr. Walter Rothschild on 
Wing 150 mm.; tail 115 mm.; metatarsus 38 mm.; 
culmen 34 mm. 
Habitat. Dutch New Guinea ( Van Renesse van Duiven- 
bode). 
Note. —In all the other six forms of Parotia there are six 
elongated head-plumes, but there is no sign of any having 
been pulled or shot out in the type of this species. A second 
specimen was received by the Paris Museum in 1910, but 
that has all the head-plumes wanting, so that there is still 
no certain evidence of the real number of head-plumes in 
P. duivenbodei. 
Parotia wahnesi. (Plate VI.) 
Parotia wahnesi Rothsch., Foerster & Rothschild, Two new 
Birds of Paradise, p. 2 (1906). 
$ ad. Differs from P. helence at first sight by having the 
whole of the frontal crest composed of curled feathers broadly 
tipped with bronzy gold, not straight and entirely bronze- 
black as in P. helence. In the latter species only the short 
feathers at the base of the culmen are tipped with golden 
bronze. The most striking difference, however, lies in the 
tails of the two species: in P. wahnesi the tail is more than 
double the length of the tail in P. helence , and is graduated 
and wedge-shaped, as opposed to the square even tail of the 
latter. 
Wing 156-165 mm.; tail 212-217 mm.; culmen 28-30 
mm. ; metatarsus 51-54 mm. 
$ ad. Differs from the female of P. helence in the much 
brighter reddish-chestnut colour of the upper surface, and 
the more rufous tone of the under parts. Feathers of the 
hind-neck heavily barred with black. Interscapulium, back, 
and rump more faintly vermiculated with black, while the 
whole upper parts in P. helence are uniform umber-brown. 
Wings and tail rufous chestnut instead of umber-brown. 
Wing circa 156 mm.; tail 178 mm.; culmen 25 mm. ; 
metatarsus 52 mm. 
Habitat . Rawlinson Mts., German New Guinea ( Wahnes 
coll.). 
