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Mr. Walter Rothschild on 
a hybrid between Cicinnurus regius and Diphyllodes 
gulielmi-tertii. It is exactly intermediate as regards tail, 
breast-shield, and flanks. 
Paradisea apoda granti North. 
Paradisea granti North, Yict. Nat. xxii. p. 147 (1906). 
$ ad. Intermediate between P. a . intermedia and P. a. 
august ( 2 -victor ice . 
Above rich straw-colour ; sides of lower back vinous 
brown ; scapulars and lesser wing-coverts vinous brown, with 
an ashy shade and washed with straw-colour; median coverts 
rich straw-colour; greater coverts and quills chestnut-brown 
washed with straw-colour ; tail chestnut-brown, the two 
central feathers elongated, and similar in the terminal portion 
to P. intermedia ; crown of head, neck, and a broad collar 
on lower throat rich straw-yellow ; base of forehead, lores, 
cheeks, and throat metallic green; chin velvety black glossed 
with dull metallic green ; fore-neck and upper breast very 
dark vinous brown, the plumage like rich velvet pile as in 
P. augustce-victorice ; remainder of under surface, thighs, and 
under tail-coverts vinous brown; elongated flank-plumes 
reddish orange, gradually becoming paler till the elongated 
tips are orange-white, the shorter side-plumes being mixed 
with some feathers tipped with blood-red. Bill bluish horn- 
coloured ; legs and feet (in skin) brown. 
Wing 175 mm.; tail without central rectrices 150 mm., 
central rectrices 500 mm. ; flank-plumes 475 mm.; culmen 
35 mm. ; metatarsus 40 mm. 
Habitat. South-East German New Guinea? 
Manucodia atra altera Bothsch. & Hartert. 
Manucodia ater altera Rothschild & Hartert, Novit. Zook 
X. pp. 84, 85 (1903). 
M . atra altera differs from M. atra atra in having the 
head less greenish, the bill much stouter and higher and 
generally longer, and the wing much longer. 
Wing: M. a. atra , 168-188 mm.; M. a. altera , 193- 
206 mm. Culmen : M. a. atra , 35-40 mm.; M. a. altera , 
40-44 mm. 
