some new Paradise-birds. 
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back long, loose, satiny black, beneath greenish blue. Side- 
feathers of the hinder neck lengthened and erectile. 
This species has been named by Finsch Paradisornis 
rudolphi, in honour of his Imperial and Royal Highness 
Rudolph, Crown-Prince of Austria, the high and mighty 
protector of ornithological researches oyer the whole world. 
14. Diphyllodes chrysoptera, Gould. 
Mas. Mari D. magnifies similis, sed alis supra pulchre auran- 
tiacis et interscapulio brunnescenti-sanguineo diversus. 
Hab. Nova Guinea merid.-orientalis. 
This species was separated from D. magnifica by Gould 
upon examples of unknown origin. But subsequently it was 
supposed that its habitat had been ascertained to be Jobi 
(cf. Salyadori, Orn. Pap. ii. p. 641), until Sharpe (Jonrn. 
Linn. Soc., Zool. xvi. p. 444) announced that he had com¬ 
pared Gould's types with examples from Southern New 
Guinea, and found them to be perfectly identical. He thus 
raised the question whether Jobi birds agree altogether with 
Gould's types and with specimens from Southern New Guinea. 
Examples from Jobi now lie before us, and are not identical 
with those from Southern New Guinea. Gould's types were 
certainly from Southern New Guinea, and to the species 
from that country the name chrysoptera must therefore 
belong, whilst the Jobi bird must be separated. It is true 
that Gould's figure does not agree with examples from 
Southern New Guinea, as Salvadori has already pointed out, 
but Sharpe's decision as to the full identity of Gould's types 
with specimens from this locality settles the question. 
D. chrysoptera differs from D. magnifica not only in the 
bright orange-yellow colour of its wings, as given by Sharpe 
(Cat. Birds, iii. p. 175), but also in the blood-red colour of 
the hind neck-feathers, which in D. magnifica are only chest- 
nut-brown or dark brownish red. Besides, the colour of the 
head, which in D. magnifica is brownish, is light orange- 
brown in D. chrysoptera , and the colour of the belly is bright 
purple, whereas in D. magnifica it has but a trace of this 
colour, and the breast-shield is more of a blue-green than 
