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Meyer’s Bow er-bird.

Chlamydodera recondita, Meyer Abhandl. k. z0ol. Mus. Dresden 1894-9

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in Kaiser Wilhelm’s Land in German New Guinea :

, Where it was taken by Herr A, Grubauer

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CHLAMYDODERA LAUTERBACHL, premier

Lauterbach’s Bower-bird.

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Chlamydodera lauterbachi, Reichenow, Orn. Monatsb. vy, p- 24 (1897).—Id. J. f. O. 1897, p. 215, pl. vi.

 

Tus fine species, which I have not seen myself, but which Mr, Hartert informs me is a true Ch

lamydodera,
was discovered by Lauterbach on the Jagei Rive

r, a tributary of the Ramu River in German New Guinea,
It has been figured by Dr. Reichenow (Z. ¢.), and is evidently quite distinct from all the other

species
of the genus. Whether the egg on which Dr. Meyer founded his C. recondita will ultimately be discovered

to belong to C. lauterbachi is a problem with which we need not trouble ourselves at present.
The following is a translation of Dr. Reichenow’s original description :—

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Crown of head and cheeks golden-orange; nape yellowish olive-brown; feathers of the
upper part of the body, upper tail-coverts, aud lesser wing-coverts olive-brown, with yellowish edgings

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maiettpe median and greater coverts olive-brown with a whitish fringe at their tips; fore-neck pale
Wales ctrated with brown, each feather having a pale yellow sbaft-stripe and brown margins; centre
of the throat nearly uniform pale yellow ; under surface of body and under tail-coverts pale wae
Memes handed across with pale brown; under wing-coverts pale yellow, the longer ones with pale
brownish tips; tail-feathers dark olive-brown, with yellowish outer margins and broad whiter inner margins
Sey gulls dark brown, with narrow pale yellowish outer margins; the shafts pelo below ; the
secondaries with whitish tips: bill black; feet grey; iris brown. Length 285 millim., wing 130, fanleealis
bill 22, tarsus 40. in |

There is no specimen of C. dauterbachi in England, the type being unique in the Berlin Museum, so I
have been unable to give a figure of the species.