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recently described Paradiseidse. 
The description is taken from the type, which, together 
with the only other known skin, is in the Tring Museum. 
The type has the two central rectrices missing, but these are 
present in the second example—a legless, flat, Arfak skin. 
The latter only differs from the type in having the five pairs 
of outer rectrices much paler brown, only glossed with steel- 
blue. As, however, this gloss is confined to one side of the 
tail, it shews the bird to be less adult than the type, and 
so I cannot attribute the paler tail to anything but youth. 
Prof. Reichenow has described this bird under the generic 
appellation of Paradisea, and has stated that it is probably a 
hybrid between Paradisea minor and Seleucides ignotus ! 
Genus Neoparadisea. 
Central tail-feathers intermediate between those of Para¬ 
disea and Diphyllodes; outer webs longest and green, curved 
downwards as in Paradisea , not inwards and crossed as in 
Diphyllodes. Bill as in Diphyllodes , but nostrils larger and 
covered by nasal plumes, though less so than in Diphyllodes. 
First primary short and pointed, second twice as long as 
the first, fourth primary longest, not fifth as in most other 
Paradiseidce. Feathers on head and neck as in Paradisea. 
Flank-plumes short, not reaching to the end of primaries, 
but of the same structure as in Paradisea. 
One species : N, ruysi Van Oort. 
Note. —The short flank-plumes denote a certain relation¬ 
ship to lanthothorax. 
Mr. Van Oort considers the type of N. ruysi immature, 
but in view of the singularly immature appearance of per¬ 
fectly adult specimens of Lamprothorax and lanthothorax , it 
is quite clear to my mind that the bird is fully adult. 
Neoparadisea ruysi Van Oort. 
Neoparadisea ruysi Van Oort, Notes Leyd. Mus. xxviii. 
p. 129 (1906-07). 
S ad. Chin and throat black with pnrplish-green gloss; 
fore-neck and breast blackish brown with a purplish-blue 
gloss, each feather of the breast fan-shaped at its apex. 
