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recently described Paradiseidse, 
of Pseudastrapia as well as the shorter and stiffer tail, and 
so it must be taken out of the genus Falcinellus and placed 
in the above-mentioned genus. 
1. Pseudastrapia lobata. 
Pseudastrapia lobata Rothschild, Bull. B. O. C. xxi. p. 25 
(1907). 
A immat. General colour dull black ; forehead with bottle- 
green gloss ; the elongated middle rectrices with a metallic 
steel-blue gloss as in Falcinetlus meyeri. and drawn out into 
long, narrow points, not abruptly cuneate as in Pseudastrapia 
ellioti. Bill and feet black. The wattles at the gape appear 
to have been pale yellow, not orange as in P. ellioti. 
Wing 187 mm.; middle rectrices 395, lateral rectrices 
122 mm.; culmen 42 mm.; metatarsus 46 mm. 
Habitat. Dutch New Guinea. 
2. Pseudastrapia ellioti (Ward). 
Epimachus ellioti Ward, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 742; Elliot, 
Monogr. Parad. pi. xx. (1873); Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 
iii. p. 163 (1877); Gould, B. New Guinea, i. pi. viii. (1880); 
Sharpe, Monogr. Parad. pi. xvi. (1896); Meyer, Ibis, ii. (6) 
p. 418 (1890). 
Falcinellus ellioti Rothseh. Das Tierreich, Aves, Lief, ii. 
p. 29(1898). 
Astrapia rothschildi. 
Astrapia rothschildi Foerster & Rothschild, Two new Birds 
of Paradise, p. 2 (1906). 
S ad. Similar to A. nigra , but the metallic border to the 
breast-shield is more fiery red and only reaches to the upper 
edge of the shield, not, as in A. nigra , to below the eye. 
The postocular black fan-shaped tufts of A. nigra are absent 
in the present species. The lunated flank-feathers have 
a narrow subterminal metallic-coppery band, followed by a 
terminal green one, not a broader entirely green terminal 
band as in A. nigra. The feathers on the hind-neck and 
lower nape appear duller in colour, each feather having a 
subterminal glittering green band followed by a terminal 
