Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 740. 
Family PARADISEIDM. 
PHONYGAMMUS KERAUDRENII. 
MANUCODE. 
(Plate 693.) 
[Barita KERATJDRENn Lessoii et Garnot, in Ferussac's Bull. Sci. Nat., VoL VIII., p. 110, 
(March) 1826 : Dorey Harbour, New Guinea. Extra-limital.] 
Manuccdia gouldii Gray, Proc, Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1869, p. 168, note, Oct. 1st: Cape York, 
Queensland. 
Manucodia keravdreni Grould, Birds Austr. SuppL, pi. 9 (pt. 2), Sept. Ist, 1855. 
Manucodia govldii Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1869, p. 158, note ; Grould, Handb. Birds 
Austr., Vol. I., p. 236, 1865; Le Souef, Ibis, 1898, p. 54. 
Phonygama gouldii Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. III., p. 181, 1877; id., Monogr. 
Birds Parad., Vol. 2, p. 7, 1891 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., 1899, p. 9; Campbell, 
Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 78, 1901 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., 
No. 1, Vol. I., p. 32, 1901 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 107, 1908 ; Macgilli- 
vray, Emu, Vol. X., p. 230, 1910 (Q.); Barnard, ih., Vol. XI., p. 30, 1911 (N.Q.); 
id., ib.y Vol. XIII., p. 70, 1913 (Eggs); Macgillivray, ib., p. 184, 1914 (N.Q.); id., 
ib., Vol. XVn., p. 211, 1918 (N.Q.). 
Manucodia {Phonygama) gouldii Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 182, 1878; 
id., Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 11, 1888. 
Phonygammus keraudreni goiddi Retlischild, Ibis, 1911, p. 367; Mathews, Nov. Zool, 
Vol. X\TII., p. 442, 1912 ; id.. List Birds Austr., p. 313, 1913. 
Phonygammus yorki Mathews, Bull. Brit. Orn. Qub, Vol. XLV., p. 17, Oct. 29th, 1924: 
Cape York, North Queensland. 
Distribution. North Queensland, Cape York to Claudie River district. 
Adult male. Top of the head, neck, and upper back glossy steel-green; mantle glossy 
purplish-blue; rump and upper tail-coverts steel-green, shaded with purple; 
middle pair of tail-feathers bluish-purple; outer pairs of tail-feathers black, glossed 
with steel-green on their outer webs; feathers of the throat long, pointed, and of 
a glossy purplish-blue; chest bright steel-blue; abdomen, sides of the body and 
flanks difll oil-green; under tail-coverts black tipped with glossy-gi’een; under 
wing-coverts and axillaries black, margined with shining green; under-surface 
of quills black. Eyes rich amber, feet, bill and palate black. Total length 310 mm.; 
culmen 26, wing 170, tail 133, tarsus 39. Figured. Collected at Black Gin Creek, 
Cape York, on the 23rd of December, 1912. 
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