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2. MANUCODIA ORIENTALIS.

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Manucodia jobiensis (nec Salvad.), Madarasz, Term. Fiiz. xx. p. 27 (1897).
Manucodia orientalis, Meyer, Abhandl. k. zool. Mus. Dresden, vii. no. 2, p. 52 (1898).—Sharpe, Monogr. Parad.
part viii. (1898, pt.).
Manucodia chalybata, Rothschild, Novit. Zool. v. p. 84 (1898).—Id. Thierreich, Lief. 2, Parad. p. 45 (1898, pt.).

The Hon. Walter Rothschild writes concerning this supposed eastern race of JZ. chalybeata :—* While
admitting that some of the eastern specimens are of a more purplish-blue colour, I have others from
Kapaur which are more blue than eastern examples, while some eastern specimens are greener than, or
quite as green as, western birds. As to the alleged differences in size and shape of the beak, they are
partly sexual and partly individual. I am therefore obliged to sink M. orientalis as a synonym of
M. chalybata.”

Nala 3. Manucopia JOBIENSIS.
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Manucodia jobiensis, Meyer, Abhandl. k. zool. Mus. Dresden, vii. no. 2, p. 52 (1898).—Rothschild, Novit. Zool.
v. p. 84 (1898).—Sharpe, Monogr. Parad. part vill. (1898).

Manuccdia jobicnsis (typica), Rothschild, Thierreich, Lief. 2, Parad. p. 45 (1898).

Dr. yon Madarasz has recorded this species from North-eastern New Guinea, but Dr. Meyer (4. ¢.) points

out that this must be probably an error. The bird was, no doubt, A. rubiensis.

Ada A, MANnucoDIA RUBIENSIS.
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Manucodiu rubiensis, Meyer, Abhandl. k. zool. Mus. Dresden, vii. no. 2, p. 52 (1898).—Rothschild, Novit.
Zool. vy. p. 84 (1898).—Sharpe, Monogr. Parad. part vill. (1898).
Manucodia jobiensis rubiensis, Rothschild, ‘I hierreich, Lief. 2, Parad. p. 45 (1898).
The Hon. Walter Rothschild has received specimens of this Manucode from Mr. Doherty, who procured
them at Takar, in Northern New Guinea (long. 136°), not far from Kafu. Mr. Rothschild considers the
species to be scarcely different from J/. jobiensis, and only to be distinguished by the “slightly greenish gloss

all over, and by having shorter wings ” (Novit. Zool. v. p. 85).

Oo. Man UCODIA ATRA.

Add :—
Manucodia atra, Meyer, Abhandl. k. zool. Mus. Dresden, vii. no. 2, p. 52 (1898).—Rothschild, Novit. Zool. v.
p. 84 (1898).—Id. Thierreich, Lief. 2, Parad. p. 44 (1898).—Sharpe, Monogr. Parad. part viii. (1898).

Genus XXVI. EUCORAX.
eae 1. Evucorax comru.
Eucoraxz comrii, Sharpe, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, iv. pp. xiv, sv (1894).—Meyer, Abhandl. k. zool. Mus. Dresden,
vil. no. 2, p. 52 (1898).
Manucodia comrii, Sharpe, Monogr. Parad. part iii. (1894).—Rothschild, Novit. Zool. v. p. 85 (1898).—Id.

Thierreich, Lief. 2, Parad. p. 45 (1898).
Dr. Meyer gives the habitat of this species as the islands of Trobriand, Ferguson, Normanby, and
Goodenough.
Genus XXVII. LYCOCORAX.
Adages 1. Lycocorax pYRRHOPTERUS.

Lycocorax pyrrhopterus, Sharpe, Monogr. Parad. part i. (1891).—Id. Bull. Brit. Orn, Club, iv. p. xiv (1894).—
Meyer, Abhandl. k. zool. Mus. Dresden, vii. no. 2, p. 52 (1898).—Rothschild, Thierreich, Lief. 2,
Parad. p. 47 (1898).

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