250 Drs. O. Finsch and A. B. Meyer on 
Guinea, As regards the shades of coloration now in question, 
the figures of D. albertisi given by Sclater (P. Z. S. 1873, 
pi. xlvii.) and Gould (B. New Guin. pt. i. pi. iii. 1875) are 
of little value. 
10. Graspedope^ora intercedens, Sharpe. 
Milne Bay. ^ 
To distinguish between this species and Craspedophora 
magnified is difficult; the differences are certainly small. It 
seems that in the male the upper surface, especially on the 
tertiaries, in a particular light, when the direction of the eye is 
nearly parallel to the upper surface of the bird, tends rather 
more to blue than to purple as in C. magnified ; other obvious 
differences it is not easy to discover. On the other hand the 
female differs still more, as Sharpe (Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. 
xvi. p. 444) has pointed out. Certainly the upper surface is 
brighter and the eye-stripe is not blackish; hut that the lower 
surface is different, as Sharpe maintains, is not apparent in the 
examples from Milne Bay. 
The differences from C. alberti are also pointed out by 
Sharpe, l. c., and those of the female of the last named 
species agree with the characters given by Salvadori (Orn. 
Pap. ii. p. 558). The upper surface of C. alberti passes into 
olive, which is not the case in C. intercedens , although it 
does not appear to have so much of a chestnut-brown tinge 
as C. magnified (cf. Salvadori, op. cit. p. 553). But I do 
not doubt of the constant difference of the Southern New- 
Guinea form from those of North-western New Guinea and 
Australia, although the divergence is small. C. intercedens, 
however, seems to approach more nearly to C. magnifica than 
to C. alberti. 
11. Paradisea einschi, Meyer, sp. nov. 
Mas. P. minori similis, sed minor, et dorso, uropygio et 
corpore subtus brunnescentibus: long, rostri 31, tarsi 
40 mi Him. 
Hab . Nova Guinea septentrionalis-occidentals, Karan. 
“ I obtained only imperfect skins of this species from the 
natives of the north-east coast (Emperor William's Land) at 
