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Mr. Walter Rothschild on 
brownish with metallic purplish-blue margin; belly and 
under tail-coverts blackish brown, the feathers of the latter 
with pale centres. On the flanks are tufts of loose orna¬ 
mental plumes, sooty brown with the barbs of the anterior 
portions whitish brown ; these ornamental flank-plumes do 
not reach end of wing. Forehead greenish black ; head 
and neck covered with short, dense, pile-like feathers, 
brownish yellow margined with greenish black. Hind-neck 
and back bright orange-brown; rump and upper tail-coverts 
olive-brown; tail fuscous brown with a purple gloss. Wings 
dusky brown glossed with purple; outer web of quills with 
broad orange-brown margins, inner webs with sandy-yellow 
edges. 
Wing 150 mm. ; tail without central feathers 90 mm., 
central tail-feathers 360 mm.; metatarsus 42 mm. 
Habitat. Warsembo, west coast of Geelvink Bay, Dutch 
New Guinea. 
SELEUCIDES IGNOTUS AURIPENNIS. 
Seleucides ignotus auripennis Schliiter, Falco, 1911, p. 2. 
A ad. Differs from that of S. ignotus ignotus in having a 
shorter wing and slenderer shorter bill; the lateral plumes 
are deeper and more golden yellow, and the green edges to 
the lateral feathers of the breast-shield are wider. 
$ ad. and J juv. Differ from those of S. ignotus ignotus 
in having the under side darker brown, the blackish-brown 
bars blacker and closer together, wing and bill shorter. 
Habitat. German New Guinea and North coast of Dutch 
New Guinea east of the Ambernok River. 
Genus Pseudastrapia. 
Tail as in FalcinetluSj but shorter, stiffer, and straighter; 
bill almost straight as in Astrapia , not long and sickle- 
shaped ; feathering of forehead continued along the bill and 
concealing the nostrils; a light-coloured (yellow) fleshy lobe 
or wattle above and below the angle of the gape. 
Two species: P. lobata Rothsch. and P. ellioti (Ward). 
Note .—On re-examining the type of P. eltioti I found that 
it had the short, almost straight bill and the wattled gape 
