throat white, slightly mottled with minute dusky cross markings ; rest o f under surface of body dull white,
very numerously and thickly barred across with dusky blackish. Total length 12 inches, culmen 1*95, wing
6*6, tail 4*45, tarsus 1*65.
“ Young male. Similar to the adult female, but o f a deeper rufous, the head and neck rather dingier than
the back; a tolerably well-defined white eyebrow, the feathers edged with brown; lores and ear-coverts
dusky chocolate-brown, with very few ochraceous shaft-streaks; under surface o f body dirty white, very
thickly barred across with black; the fiank-plumes elongated, but barred exactly like the breast; from the
base o f the lower mandible a malar streak o f dusky black, continued down the sides o f the throat onto the
sides o f the chest. Total length 14*5 inches, culmen 2*3, wing 6*95, tail 4*9, tarsus 1*65.”
It will be seen that I have not followed the nomenclature employed by me in the Supplement to the ‘ Birds
of Australia.’ The present bird and P . alberti ought to be placed in a separate genus from that which
contains P . paradisea and P . victories; and I therefore propose to adopt Mr. G. R. Gray’s generic name of
Craspedophora for the above two birds.
The figures represent a male and a female, about the natural size, drawn from specimens in my
collection.