PHONYGAMA GOULDI (Gray).
Gould's Maaucode.
Manucodia heraudnni (nec Less.), Gould, Birds of Australia, Suppl. pi. 9 (1855).
Manucodia gouUi, Gray, Proc. Zool. See. 1889, p. 158, note.—Gould, Handb. B. Austr. i. p. 236 (18G5).—Gray,
Hand-l. B. ii. p. 17, no. G259 (1870).—Masters, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, i. p. 60 (1877).
Phonygmm gotildi, Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. iii. p. 181 (1877).—Finsch, Vog. der Sudsee, p. 37 (1884).
Manucodia (Plwnygama) gonidi, Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 11 (1888).
Plwmjgama Itermtdrem (nec Less.), Witmer Stone, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Fhilad. 1891, p. 448.
THIS specics represents in the Cape York Peninsula of Australia the specics of Phonygmm wliieh inliabit
New Guinea, sucli as P. keraudreni, P. jamcsi, P. purpureo-molacca, and P. hunsteini. In the occurrence
of a true iViOw^/^^-ff;«« in North-eastern Aubtralia we may liave a parallel case to tlie otiier Papuan forms
which are met with on the Australian coiitinent, viz. Casmrius, Tamjsiptcra, Craspeilophora, &c.
Gould's Manueode was discovered in the Cape York Peiiinsiila by the late John Macgillivray during the
voyage of the'Rat t lesnake. ' For some time it was helieved by Gould to be idejitieal P. kcrauilrcni
of New Guinea, but the differences were ])o!nted out by Gray, and the sjiecies is now generally admitted
to be distinct. It is a green bird and iuis the wings green, like the rest of the plumage, without any of
the steel-blue or purple reflections seer] in the New Giilnea forms.
Dr. Otto Finsch met with the s])eeies near Somerset in the Cape York Peninsula, where lie found it
by no means common. It keeps out of sight, but its cry is often heard and resembles the bray of a
child's toy-trum])et.
The following description is taken from my third volume of the ' Catalogue of Birds ':—
General colour steel-green, of a somewhat oily-green cast on the rumj) and ujjper tall-coverts ; wings
coloured like the back, the coverts and the outer webs of tlie quills with a slight shade of purjjllsh blue, this
colour being also flilntly indicated on the interscapulary region ; wings black on the Inner webs, excepting
the Innermost secondaries, which are bluish green ; tail black, glossed with deep ])urpllsh blue, the feathers
greenish on their outer edges under certain lights; head green, as also the two long tufts projecting from
each side of the occiput; sides of fiice, throat, and underjiarts green, the abdomen with an oily-green shade,
the feathers of the throat pointed and lanceolate, these parts somewhat shaded with steel-blue under certaii]
lights : bill and legs black ; " Iris ochre-yellow " ( 0 . Fmsch). Total length 11'O inches, eulmen 1-25, wing G'lo,
tall 5" 15, tarsus l"5o.
It has not been considered necessary to give a separate figure of this species.