recently described Paradiseidse. 
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Lophorina superba latipennis. 
Lophorina minor latipennis Rothsch. Bull. B. 0. C. xix. 
p. 92 (1907). 
$ ad. Differs from the male of L. minor minor from 
British New Guinea in having the long lateral plumes of 
the pectoral shield slightly longer and distinctly wider. 
Habitat. Rawlinson Mountains, German New Guinea. 
Genus Loborhamphus. 
Allied to Lamprothorax . Differs from that genus in having 
longer pectoral tufts which are more curved, in having a 
much less developed nuclial frill, and in having two yellow 
fleshy lobes or folds on the basal third of the bill, forming 
two wattles on each side. The tail is graduated and like 
that of an Astrapia , not short and square with the two 
central feathers elongated and narrow. 
Two species : L. nobilis Rothsch. and L. ptilorhis Sharpe. 
Loborhamphus nobilis. 
Loborhamphus nobilis Rothsch. Bull. B. O. C. xii. p. 34 
(1901); Rothsch. & Hartert, Notes on Papuan Birds, Novit. 
Zool. x. pp. 65, 72, 89, pi. i. 
c? ad. Crown metallic purple; neck, back, and rump 
velvety black with a strong bronze gloss. Wings and tail 
black with a purple sheen on the exposed webs. Sides of 
the neck and head coppery bronze. Chin and throat dark 
bronzy green. Pectoral shield glittering purple with metallic- 
blue reflexion. Some of the feathers of the lateral tufts 
have a metallic-blue border. Below the pectoral shield is an 
ill-defined wide bronze-green band. Rest of under surface 
black with a strong wash of purple. 
Wing 165 mm.; tail 154 mm., lateral pair of tail-feathers 
105 mm,; bill from gape 37 mm. ; culmen 32 mm.; meta¬ 
tarsus 44 mm. 
Habitat. Dutch New Guinea (Van Renesse van Duiven- 
bode). 
