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MANUCODIA CHALY BEATA (Pennant).

Green Manucode.

Le Calybé de la Nouvelle Guinée, Daubent. Pl. Enl. iu. pl. 364.—Montbeill. Hist. Nat. Ois. iii. p. 200 (1775).

Oiseau de Paradis verd, Sonn. Voy. Nouv. Guin. p. 164, pl. 99 (1776).

Le Chalybé, Forst. Zool. Ind. p. 38 (1781).

Paradisea chalybata, Penn. Faunula Indica, in Forst. Zool. Ind. p. 40 (1781).

Blue-green Paradise Bird, Lath. Gen. Syn. i. pt. 2, p. 482 (1782).

Manucodia chalybea, Boda. Tabl. Pl. Enl. p. 39 (1783).—Sclater, Pr. Journ. Linn. Soc. it. p. 162 (1858).—Gray, Cat.
B. New Guin. p. 37, pt. (1859).—Elliot, Mon. Parad. pl. 6 (1873).—Salvad. Ann. Mus. Gen. vil.
p- 781 (1875).—Pavesi, op. cit. ix. p. 74, fig. 9 (1876).—Gould, B. New Guin. i. pl. 34 (1877).—
D’Hamonv. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, xi. p. 510 (1886).

Paradisea viridis, Scop. Del. Flor. et Faun. Insub. ii. p. 88 (1786).—Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 402 (1788).

Paradisca chalybea, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 197 (1790).—Shaw, Gen. Zool. vii. p. 504, pl. 71 (1809).

Le Calibé, Audeb. et Vieill. Ois. Dor. ii. p. 24, pl. 10 (1802).—Levaill. Ois. de Paradis, p. 64, pl. 23
(1806).

Cracticus chalybeus, Vieill. Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat. v. p. 355, pl. B30. fig. 1 (1816).—Id. Enc. Méth p. 901
(1823).—Steph. in Shaw’s Gen. Zool. xiv. pt. 2, p. 61 (1826).

Barita viridis, Cuv. Régn. An. i. p. 340 (1817).—Less. Man. i. p. 140 (1828).

Barita chalybea, Wagl. Syst. Av. Paradisea, sp. 2 (1827).—S. Mull. Verhandl. Land- en Volkenk. p. 22
(1839-44).—Temm. Pl. Col. Tab. Meth. p. 9 (1840).

Chalybeus paradiseus, Cuv. Régn. An. i. p. 354 (1829).

Phonygama chalybeus, Less. Tr. d’Orn. p. 344 (1831).

Phonygama chalybea, Swains. Classif. B. ii. p. 264 (1837).—Finsch, Neu-Guinea, p. 173 (1865).

Phonygama viridis, Less. Compl. de Buff., Ois. p. 404 (1838).—Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 303 (1846).—Bp. Consp. Av. i.
p- 368 (1850).

Manucodia viridis, Gray, Gen. and Subgen. B. p. 65 (1855).—Id. P. Z.S. 1858, p. 194.—Id. Cat. B. New Guin.
p. 59, pt. (1859).—Id. P. Z.S. 1861, p. 436.—Id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 17, no. 6257, pt. (1870).—Sel.
P. Z. S. 1876, p. 414.—Musschenbr. Dagboek, pp. 195, 228 (1883).—Rosenb. Mitth. orn. Ver. Wien,
1885, p. 40.

Chalybea viridis, Schl. Handl. Dierk. i. p. 334 (1857).—Id. Dierent. Vog. p. 175.—Id. Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. iv.
p. 49 (1871).

Chalybeus viridis, Schl. Mus. P.-B., Coraces, p. 122 (1867).—Sundev. Meth. Ay. Tent. p.45 (1872).—Rosenb.
Malay. Arch. pp. 370, 558 (1879).

Manucodia chalybeata, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Gen. vii. p. 968 (1875), ix. p. 189 (1876), x. p. 156 (1877).—D’ Alb. et
Salvad. op. cit. xiv. p. 94 (1879).—Meyer, Abbild. Vog.-Skelet. p. 5, Taf. vii. et vil.¢ (1879).—Salvad. Orn.
Papuasia, ii. pp. 498, 680 (1881).—Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xvi. p. 442 (1882).—Salvad. Orn.
Papuasia, iii, p. 551 (1882).—Guillem. P.Z.S. 1885, p. 646.— Meyer, Zeitschr. ges. Orn. il. p. 374
(1885).—Salvad. Ibis, 1886, p. 155.—Finsch & Meyer, t. c. pp. 241, 242.—Salvad. Age. Orn. Pap, i.
p- 147 (1890).

Manucodia atra, D’Alb. (nec Less.) Sydn. Mail, 1877, p. 248.—Id. Ann. Mus. Gen. x. p. 20 (1877).—Rams.
Pr, Linn. Soc. N.S. W. ii. p. 101, pt. 7 (1877).

Manucodia chalybata, Sharpe, Cat. B: Brit. Mus. iii, p. 182 (1877).—Eudes-Deslongch. Ann. Mus. d’Hist. Nat.
Caen, i. p. 43 (1880).

 

Conswwerine the number of years that this species has been known to science, it is certainly curious that
so little has been recorded concerning its manners and habits ; and, as will be seen below, even the exact
characters of its plumage and its differences from allied species are still matters of some conjecture.

The Green Manucode is principally known from New Guinea, but it cannot be said to be as common
as M. atra in any part of the great island. The most perfect specimen which I have yet seen was obtained
by Mr. Wallace at Dorey, and beyond that example the British Museum does not possess a single authentic
specimen from North-western New Guinea. The species has, however, been extensively procured by recent
travellers in the Arfak Mountains, at Andei and Mansinam by Bruijn’s hunters, and at Patat, Warmendi, and
Profi by Dr. Beccari. D’Albertis met with it in Hatam, and Bruyjn received specimens from Nappan, while
Beccari records the species from Dorei-hum. The bird from Rubi, supposed at first to be the true
M. chalybeata, has since been separated from it as MZ. rubiensis by Dr. A. B. Meyer.