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the Chief Falconer, on his rounds, discovered in the cage of 
these Falcons an egg remarkable for the beauty of its 
colouring. This egg he furtively concealed in the folds of 
his dress and carried off to his quarters. Subsequently he 
presented it, for hatching, to a neighbouring prince, who 
vied with the Khan in his love of Falcons, and in exchange, 
he received a damsel of surpassing loveliness whom he had 
long desired to add to the number of his wives. Unfortu¬ 
nately for him, the Khan discovered the misdemeanour of his 
Falconer, who fell into disfavour and had to flee for his life 
across the sea to Circassia, where, perchance, some wandering- 
ornithologist may again hear this story from the lips of one 
of his numerous descendants. 
XXV .—-On the correct name of D' Auhenton s “Manucode 
a Bouquets .” By Lord Rothschild. 
When looking up Birds-of-Paradise in connection with the 
“ Plumage Bill,” Mr. T. Iredale drew my attention to 
the statement by Mr. Ogilvie-Grant on page 24 of the 
Jubilee Supplement of this journal, with regard to the syno¬ 
nymy of a species of Diphyllodes , that Dr. Hartert and I 
had agreed that his synonymy of this bird was correct. 
I wish here to put this synonymy right, and at the same 
time say I had not agreed to Mr. Grant’s view. 
Mr. Grant adopts Boddaert’s name, changing his speccosa 
into speciosa , as being the author’s intention. This he does 
because the name speccosa dates from 1781, whereas he 
asserted Pennant’s name of magnifica in Forster’s Indian 
Zoology dated only from 1795. 
This is erroneous, as Pennant’s name dates from the first 
German edition, viz. “ Indische Zoologie, &c.” herausgegeben 
von Johann Reinhold Forster, Halle 1781, not from the 
2nd and 3rd English editions of 1790 and 1795. Therefore 
the correct name of D’Aubenton’s bird (PI. Enl. pi. 631) is 
Diphyllodes magnifica (Penn.) and not D. speccosa (Bodd.). 
Moreover, according to the International Rules speciosa is 
inadmissible, as only author’s corrections in the current 
volume are valid. 
