PARYPHEPHORUS DUIVENBODTITII,

Van Duivenbode’s Bird of Paradise.

Meyer.

Craspedophora duivenbodei, Meyer, Ibis, 1890, p- 419, pl. xii.
Paryphephorus duivenbodei, Meyer, Ibis, 1890, p. 420.—Salvad. Age

. Orn. Papuasia, iii. p. 241 (1891).—Sharpe,
Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, iv. p. xii (1894).

 

Tus species is known from a single specimen in the Dresden Museum.

It is supposed to have come from
some part of New Guinea, but the exact habitat of the species still rem

ains unknown.

In general appearance Puryphephorus resembles a Rifle-bird of the genus Craspedophora, having a green
pectoral shield, but it differs in having a fan-like frill on the hind-neck and in not having the flank-plumes
developed to any great extent. It is, in my opinion, correctly separated as a distinct genus from
Craspedophora and Ptilorhis.

Nothing is known of its habits or various plumages.

The following is the description of the type specimen which I made in 1891 in the Dresden Muse

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Adult male. General colour velvety black, with a purplish gloss under certain lights ;

wings and tail
velvety black, the two centre tail-feathers metallic steel-green ; round the hind-neck a prominent frill of
velvety-black feathers glossed with violet ; crown of head steel-green ; sides of face and throat velvety purple
with bronzy reflections ; on the fore-neck and chest a triangular shield of rich steel-green with olive-green
reflections, inclining to blue on the margins of the shield; under surface of body blackish, with a bronzy
gloss on the upper breast, becoming rather more violet on the abdomen and flanks. Total length about
9-5 inches, culmen 1-7, wing 6°5, tail 3-8, tarsus 1-5.

The figure in the Plate is drawn from a sketch of the typical example made by Mr. Keulemans for the

‘Ibis’ in 1890.

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