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CHLAMYDODERA RECONDITA, Mej/er.
M e y e r ' s Rovyer-bird.
CMarmjUodem recondita, Meyer Abhaiull. k. zool. Mus. Dresden, 1894-93, no. 10, p. 2 (1893),
D R . A. 13. MEYER Ims described and figured tlie egi; of a species of Chknvjdodera from Constaiitine Harbour,
III Kiiiser Wilbelm's Land in German New Guinea, where it was taken by Ilerr A. Grnbaner.
CHLAMYDODERA LAUTERBACHI, iidohen.
L a u t e r b a c l i ' s Bovrer-hird.
Chlamyiodera Imiterhacld, Reiohenow, Orn. Monatsb. v. p. 21 (1897).—Id. J. f. O. 1897, p. 21.5, pi. vi.
Tins fine species, wliicb I have not seen myself, but wliich Mr, Hartert informs me is a true Chlanvjdodera,
was discovered by Lauterbacb on the Jaijei River, a tributary of the Rarau lliver in German New Guinea.
It has been figured by Dr. Reicheiiow (/. c.), and is evidently quite distinct from all the other species
of the genus. Whether the egg on which Dr. Meyer founded his C. recondita m\\ ultimately be discovered
to belong to C. ImUerhacIu is a problem with which we need not trouble ourselves at present.
The following is a translation of Dr. lleichenow's original description :—
Adult male. Crown of head and cheeks golden-orange; nape yellowish olive-brown; feathers of the
upper part of the body, upper tail-coverts, aud lesser wiug-coverts olive-brown, with yellowish edgings
at the tip ; median and greater coverts olive-brown with a whitish fringe at their tips ; fore-neck pale
yellow, striated with brown, each feather having a pale yellow shaft-stripe and brown margins ; centre
of the throat nearly uniform pale yellow ; under surface of body and under tail-coverts pale chrome-yellow,
the Hanks banded across with pale brown ; under wiug-coverts pale yellow, the longer ones with pale
brownish tips; tail-feathers dark olive-brown, with yellowish outer margins and broad whiter inner margins
and tips; quills dark brown, with narrow pide yellowish outer margins; the shafts yellow below; the
secondaries with whitish tips: bill black; feet grey ; iris brown. Length 28.) millim., wing 130, tail 110,
bill 22, tarsus 40.
There is no specimen of C. lauterbadii in England, the type being unique in the Berlin Museum, so I
have been unable to give a figure of the species.