some new Paradise-birds. 
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Besides this first portion treating of the Paradise-birds col¬ 
lected, a second paper will be given devoted to birds of other 
families. We also take this opportunity of mentioning a few 
species which Finsch obtained from the English collector, 
McCormac, during his visit to Milne Bay, and which are 
from the coast-district, no collector in this neighbourhood 
having yet penetrated into the interior. 
A Paradise-bird obtained in exchange from the natives on 
the previously unvisited north-east coast of Kaiser-Wilhelms- 
land has also turned out to be a new species ( Paradisea 
finschi ). Lastly, we take this opportunity of mentioning 
some species belonging to the same district which were 
obtained by Meyer in his former journey on the coast of the 
Bay of Geelvink. 
Among the nineteen species of Paradise-birds mentioned 
in this memoir, six appear to be new to science, and amongst 
these are two of new genera, Astrarchia and Paradisornis. 
Besides this, we have been able to describe the hitherto 
unknown females of two species, Parotia lawesi and Lopho - 
rhina minor , as also the hitherto unknown and splendid 
male of one species, Amblyornis subalaris. All these, except 
Paradisea finschi, of Kaiser-Wilhelmsland, come from Horse¬ 
shoe Mountain. 
Lastly, during the necessary comparisons, we have felt 
constrained to separate an already known species of Paradise- 
bird from the island of Jobie as Diphyllodes jobiensis, and a 
hitherto overlooked species from the south of the Bay of 
Geelvink as Manucodia rubiensis. 
Berlin and Dresden, November 1885. 
1. Manucodia chalybeata. 
Examples of this species from the coast of Milne Bay, 
opposite the Killerton Islands, agree very well with spe¬ 
cimens from Andai, Passim, and Inwiorage, on the Bay 
of Geelvink {Meyer), except that in the former the neck- 
feathers seem to be more brilliantly coloured and are alto¬ 
gether rather more bluish. 
