244 Drs. O. Finsch and A. B. Meyer on 
form not a broad but a narrow plaque, and tlieir tips 
converge in the middle into a straight line running back¬ 
wards ; the plaque is narrowed and prolonged behind, where 
it passes into a dark olive-brown. The neck-shield is of a 
uniform steel-blue with violet nuance, instead of green and 
blue. The vinous-red silky tinge of the upper surface is 
absent; its hue is much paler. The shortness of the tail is 
also especially noteworthy : in P. sexpennis it measures 130- 
135 millim., in P. lawesi only 84-88 millim.; so that the 
female and young male of P. lawesi have a longer tail than 
the adult male. 
6. Lophorina minor. 
Lophorina superba minor , Bamsay, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S.W. 
x. p. 242 (1885). 
Mr. Ramsay has described the male of this new species 
from South-eastern New Guinea. The female was unknown 
to him. 
Fem . Similis feminse L. superbce, sed supra olivaceo-brunnea, 
minor, et taenia superciliari in occipite confluente, varie- 
gata, distinguenda : long, tota 220, alae 120, caudae 
80, rostri culm. 21, rostr. hiatus 30, tarsi 28 millim. 
The measurements of the female of L. superba are f( wing 
125, tail 95-100 millim.” The head and neck are black in 
L. minor as in L. superba, but L. minor has on each side a 
broad superciliary stripe of white-spotted feathers which 
unite at the nape. In L. superba only slight indications of 
this superciliary stripe are perceptible behind the eyes. In 
L. minor the face and sides of the neck are spotted like the 
throat, in L. superba these parts are black. The lower 
surface of L. minor seems somewhat more yellowish than in 
L. superba, and the back, the smaller wing-coverts, and the 
tertials as well as the tail are olive-brown instead of dark 
chestnut-brown. The outer edges of the secondaries are 
broad and rusty brown in L. minor, in L. superba they are 
narrower and brown, and the inner webs of the wing- 
feathers beneath are broad and bright rusty brown, instead 
of being uniform blackish brown. Thus the females of the 
two species are quite distinct. 
