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TRICHOPARADISEA GULIELM]

Emperor of Germany’s Bird of P

(Cab.).

aradise.,

Paradisea gulielmi, Cabanis, J. f. O. 1888, p. 119.

Paradisea guhelmi tert, Cabanis, J. f. O. 1889, tab. i—Salvad.
(1890 ).—Madarasz, Aquila, i. p. 90 (1894),

Trichoparadisea gulielmi, Meyer, Abhandl. k. zool. Mus. Dr
Orn. Club, iv. p. xiii (1894),

Age. Orn. Papuasia e delle Molucche, p. 158

esden, 1892-93, p. 20 (1893).—Sharpe, Bull. Brit,

 

 

 

 

Tus fine species of Bird of Paradise, for which Dr. Mey

a er has rightly instituted a new generic name, was
discovered in German New Guinea, and named after the E

mperor of Germany by Professor Cabanis.
The exact locality of the species was not known till Mr. Geisler precured the species in the mountains to
the north of Huon Gulf, where it was found not lower than 800 feet.

 

It has also been found by the late
Mr. Fenichel in the Finisterre Mountains at a height of about 1600 fe

et, where it is called by the natives
*Chanbi.” Captain Cotton and Captain Webster procured a series of

specimens on the Sattelberg Mountain
in the Finisterre range, on their recent expedition, for the Hon. Walter Rothschild
fine pair of birds to the British Museum, from which the following descriptions

Adult male. General colour above maroon-brown, washed on the lower b

, who has presented a
are taken :—

ack with straw-yellow ; the whole
of the hinder neck, mantle, and upper back, as well as the lesser wing-coverts, bright straw-yellow ; remainder
| of the wing-coverts, quills, upper tail-coverts, and tail-feathers maroon-brown, the two centre tail-feathers
represented by long brown shafts, devoid of webs; crown of head metallic grass-green, as well as the sides
of the face and entire throat and chest ; the green cap approaching a point on the nape, which is deeper
| straw-colour, extending down the sides of the neck in a sharply defined line from the green throat-shield ;
remainder of under surface of body deep maroon, velvety on the breast, the abdomen rather more blackish,
with a pale yellowish-white patch on each side ; long flank-plumes white, the feathers with hair-like and
dissociated webs, some of the upper long flank-plumes being dark maroon-brown like the breast, the inner
lung plumes being gelden yellow 5 under wing-coverts and quill-lining dark maroon-brown; ‘bill and
feet reddish brown; iris reddish brown ” (Lenichel). ‘Total length 13 inches, culmen 1:15, wing 6:7,
tail 4-4, centre tail-feathers 18°5, tarsus 1°8.

Adult female. Similar to the male, but much duller in colour and wanting the ornamental flank-plumes,
the crown and throat being blackish chocolate of a velvety character, the shape of the yellow on the
hinder crown being the same as in the male, but the yellow much duller in colour, as well as the straw-
yellow on the breast, this colour being washed with greenish grey; the lesser wing-coverts entirely of a
greenish-grey colour; the same crossing the fore-neck in an indistinct band ; remainder of the under surface
from the chest downwards dark maroon-brown; the flank-plumes a little longer, but of the same colour
as the breast. Total length 13-3 inches, culmen 1:5, wing 6°6, tail 4:5, tarsus 1°75.

A younger female, from the Sattelberg Mountain, lent me by Mr. Rothschild, is paler than the female

: : . ; Pala cea Mats ‘Inous, with
bird described, especially on the under surface of the body, which is pale maroon or dull vinous,

 

ee ; : -carcely distineuishable, the pale straw-colour
Indistinct mottlings of dusky cross-bars, nearly obsolete and scarcely distinguishable, pe

 

of the sides of the neck extending across the fore-neck below the blackish throat. z con
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The three specimens from the Rothschild Museum described above are figured in the Pla i

male and female have been presented by him to the British Museum.

 

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