recently described Paradiseidse. 363 
plumes are narrowly tipped with yellowish emerald-green, 
not broadly tipped with golden green. Primaries of a duller 
orange-rufous. 
Measurements given by the author :— 
Wing 200 mm. (evident misprint for 100 mm.) ; tail 
without central tail-feathers 48 mm., tail with central 
feathers unrolled 330 mm.; culmen 42 mm.; metatarsus 
50 mm. ; middle toe 37 mm. 
Through the kindness of the authorities of the U.S. 
National Museum, I have been able to examine the type of 
this species. The width of the green pectoral shield, the 
shape of the tail and middle rectrices, and the dark colour 
of the forehead (w'hich is as dark as in C. regius coccineiformis ), 
are very striking characters, and it is a great pity that the 
locality whence this bird came is unknown. By some 
curious mistake most of the measurements in the description 
are wrong. The wing measures 102, and not 200, the tail 
with the central feathers unrolled 167, and not 300, the 
culmen 22, and the metatarsus 30 mm. 
Habitat. Unknown. 
Cicinnurus goodfellowi Grant. 
Cicinnurus goodfellowi Grant, Bull. B. 0. C. xix. p. 39 
(1907). 
Differs from C. lyogyrus in having the upper parts of a 
bright orange-crimson, paler than in C. regius \ chin and 
upper parts of the throat orange-red, shading into dull 
crimson with purple reflexions on the lower throat and fore¬ 
neck ; in lacking all trace of the buff tips to the feathers of 
the fore-neck, which in C. lyogyrus and C. regius form a 
marked convex line dividing the dull crimson of the fore¬ 
neck from the green of the upper breast; and in having the 
flank-feathers dark sooty brown glossed with coppery purple. 
Iris dark brown; bill yellow; feet dark cobalt-blue. 
Culmen 27‘5 mm.; wing 102'5 ; central tail-feathers 
190 mm.; metatarsus 32*5 mm. 
Habitat. Cyclops Mts., 3000 ft., Humboldt Bay, Dutch 
New Guinea. 
Note. —In my opinion this bird is nothing more than 
