MAmJCODE. 
Adult female. Head, ear-coverts and long tufts on each side of the occiput metallic- 
green. slightly glossed with bronze ; mantle and upper back metallic greenish-blue ; 
lower back, rump and upper tail-coverts metallic bronze-green; middle pair of 
tail-feathers entirely greenish-blue, remainder of the tail metallic greenish-blue on 
the outer webs and dull black on the inner webs; wing-coverts and secondaries 
green, glossed with blue; pinmaries and outer secondaries black, widely margined 
on the outer webs with steel-green ; innennost secondaries metallic greenish-blue ; 
sides of the face, chin, and throat green, glossed with bronze; lanceolate feathers 
of the tlu-oat steel-blue; chest and upper breast oil-green; abdomen and under 
tail-coverts dull black, devoid of gloss. Eyes crimson, feet, bill and palate black. 
Total length 300 mm. ; culmen 26, wing 156, tail 126, tarsus 36. Figured. 
Collected at Utingu, Cape York, on the 24th of September, 1912. 
The upper-surface of the adult female is distinctly greenish, that of the male is 
bluish or purplish-green. 
Immature female. Top of the head, back of the neck, mantle, upper back and wing- 
coverts dull purphsh-blue, with one or two bright metallic-green feathers making 
their appearance; rump brownish-black, slightly glossed with purple; upper 
tail-coverts and tail dull bluish-purple; primaries and outer secondaries black, 
glossed on the outer web with bluish-purple; iimermost secondaries uniform 
dull purphsh-blue; entire under-surface smoky-black, glossed on the chest with 
dull purphsh-blue. Eyes amber-colour, feet and bill black. Collected at Cape York 
on the 22nd of August, 1912. 
Eggs. Two eggs form the clutch. A clutch of two eggs taken at Lockerbie, Cape York, 
North Queensland, on the 19th of December, 1910, is of a pale purphsh-pink 
ground-colour, well marked with short longitudinal streaks and spots of red^sh- 
chestnut, purple and piurplish-grey, the markings becoming more numerous 
towards the larger end of each egg. Rather oval in shape. Surface of shell close- 
grained, smooth and shghtly glossy. 35-36 by 23 mm. 
Eest. An open and rather shallow structure, composed almost entirely of strong cmly 
tendrils of vines and creeping plants, well worked in and woven together, lined 
with finer ones. Dimensions over all, 6 to nearty 9 inches across by 4 to nearly 
5 inches in depth. Egg cavity, 3J to 4J inches across by 1| to over 2 inches deep. 
Nest is bmlt in a tree, usually at some bushy part, and placed in a small forked 
branch; situated at heights varying from 20 to nearly 70 feet. 
Breeding-months. October to end of January. 
This species was sent by Macgillivray with the preceding under the name 
OMyhmus comutus, and here again Gould did not detect any difference. No 
field-notes were given. 
Le Souef pubhshed Barnard’s notes, but more recently Barnard has given 
a full account, which is here reproduced: “ These birds are only found in 
the scrub and are very shy, except on the nest, when it is difficult to flush them. 
The nest is constructed of vine tendrils, and somewhat resembles that of Ghihra 
iracteata, but is larger in size, while the eggs can be seen through the nest from 
the ground. Nest is usually placed in the topmost branches of a tree, at heights 
varying from 20 to 70 feet from the ground. All the clutches taken consisted 
of two eggs. The following notes on the Manucode may be of interest to bird- 
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