I N T R O D U C T I O N .
Keij to the Species.
a. Larger : chest purple ; gular sliield inetallic-gTCL'ti ; hreast and abdomen olive riilegreen
; chin and sides of throat hlack, with scarcely any purple gloss. Female biifV
heneatli, with distinct siil)-inarginal bands of black
b. Smaller: chin and sides of throat with a reilection of burnished copjier; gular shield
somewhat smaller, the j)nrj)le colour extending over the fore-neck, chest, and nj)per
h r e a s t ; remainder of under surface more of an olivaceous green. fawn-colour
below, with dusky spots
1. paradisea.
'2. mctunce.
II. CRASPEDOPHORA.
Crasppdophora, Gray, List Gen. B. 1841, p. I.*)
Rauo-c. New Guinea and N.K. Australia.
hey to the Species,
a. Base of cidmen bare, not covered by the frontal j>liimes.
a. ]5reast reddish-purple below the double pectoral band. Female with the head
rufous like the back
Breast oily green below the pectoral collar. Female with the head ashy i)rown, the
back olivaceous brown 2,
I). Base of culmen hidden by the frontal plumes ; bill shorter than in the j)receding
Type.
C. magnifica.
1. Diagm/ìcfi.
(liberti.
species. Feniak similar to that of C. magnifica 3 . intcì'cedena.
Hange. New Guinea.
III. HETEROPTILORHIS, gen. Type.
/-/. mantoui.
IV. PARYPHEPHORUS.
Pm-ìjjìÌH'phorus, Meyer, Ibis, 18i)0, p. 4^0
littHge. New Guinea.
V. lANTHOTHORAX.
laiitJiothorax, Buttili. Notes Leydon Mus, xvi. p. IB.'i (1894)
Range. New Guliiea.
VI, SELEUCIDES.
Sekuckies, Less. Hist. Nat. Ois. Farad. Syn. p. 2S (18.35)
NcmatopJiora, Gray, List Gen. B. 1S40, p. 1-2
Range. New Guinea, Salawati.
VII. UREPANORNIS.
Drepanophonis (nec Egertoii), Selater, Nature, 187.3, p. 1.02
Drrprnwrms, Selater, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 5S0 (nom. emend.)
Range. New Guinea.
Key to the Species.
a. Tail einiiainon-rufous ; back dark reddish-brown, uiiiforni
i . Tail pale fawn-colour, like the iipjier tail-coverts ; back light brown, with
indistinct mesial ovale spots of buff
Type.
P. ditiveiibodti.
Type.
I. hemhacld.
Type.
S. nigricans.
S. nigricans.
Type.
D. albertisi.
D. allertisi.
1. albertisi.
2. geisleri.
3 . cervinicauda.
1 N T R O 1) U C T I O N.
VIII. DllEl'ANANAX.
Drepanmiax, Sliarpe, Bull. Brit. Orn. Clul), iv. p.xv(18i)4)
Range. New Guinea.
I X . EPIMACIILIS.
Type.
IJ. iniijiti.
•I'ype.
E. spvciosas.
ÌC. sjiecivsits.
Epimachts, Cuvier, Kegne Anira. i. p. 407 (1817)
Cimiamolegus, Less. Hist. Nat. Ois. Pai-ad. Syn. p. 32 (1833)
Range. New Guinea.
Key to the Specie.'!.
a. Tail with a steel-blue or steel-green gloss ; back spaugled with uielallie-green or steel-blue.
a . Elongated flauk-plunies black ; under surface of body black, with an oily-olive gloss,
slightly inclining to ¡lurplisb I. spiriosusb'.
Elongated tlank-plunies brown; under surface of body brown, with a distinct olive
shade or purplish gloss 'i- majeri.
c . Elongated llank-plunies green, like the abdomen, contrasting with the emerald-green
c h e s t ; throat black, followed by a cojipery-red thora.-t astrapiuiiles.
b. Tail and wings with a violet-|iurplc gloss ; spangles on back reddish-purple . . . 4. elliuti.
Suu-F,11MILV II. PARADISEIN/E.
Key lo the Ge,
No lleshy-yellow wattle round the eye.
a . Tail of extreme length and graduated, the central feathers broad
like ihe others, c.xcecdirig ihe length of the body of the bird, and not
j-educed to narrow plumes or u'ire-like shalts.
a . Tail twice the length of tlie body ; round the hind-neck a metallic
frill
t!'. Tail four limes the lenglh of the body of llie bird ; no njctallic frill
round llie hind-neck
c". Tail shorter, scarcely c.xeeeding the length of the body of the bird; no
metallic frill round the hind-neck
b'. Tail square or slightly rounded, with the two central feathers enormously
elongated and rcduced to shaft-like illumes, cither very narrow and
slightly s]iatulatc at the ends QParadisorni.i') or like wire (J'arar/isea)
or whalebone (Uraniirnis), with the webs of ihe long flank-feathers
disconnected near their tijis and without radii.
d". Flank-plumes very long, full, and ornamental, reaching beyond the tail
by more than the wing's length
e". Flank-]ilumes ornamental, but not reaching beyond the tail by as niucli
as the wing's length.
n=. Centre tail-feathers as in I'aradisea, but the Hank-plumes not so
dense and having thread-like ends like a spider's web ; on the
throat a metallic-green sliiekl
b". Centre lail-feathers rcduced to horny shafts like whalebone, with
]10 barbs or web of any kind ; flank-|)lunies red, with threadlike
ends ; a nietallic-grcen shield on the throat . . . .
10. ASTU.U'I.A.
11. Asi'T IlAKCIlI.A.
12. C;.iLAS'rHAl'IA.
1 3 . PAH.\UISKA.
1 4 . TKICUOPAEÌAUISEA.
1 5 . I'KA-NOK.MS.