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APPENDIX.

2. DipHYLLODES SELEUCIDES.

es llodes seleucides, Sharpe Monoer. Parad. part vi. (1896).—Meyer, Abbandl. k. zool. Mus. Dresden, vii,
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no. 2, p. 49 (1898).
Diphyllodes magnificus, pt., Rothschild,
united all the species of Diphyllodes together, as he finds every gradation
If that after examining bis series of specimens, it is extremely

Thierreich, Lief. 2, Parad. p. 36 (1898).

The Hon. Walter Rothschild has

‘n the colour of the wings. I must say myse : oo sain that aioe
. pea rat Waiter & re -el certain that when th :
difficult to say where one species ends and the other begins ; and yet J fe é é e different

NI CE IT stent collectors, a definite range will be assig
rances of mountains in New Guinea are worked by competent collectors, a de ange be assigned to
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each of these closely allied species of Diphyllodes.

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3. DieHyLLODES CHRYSOPTERA.

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Diphyllodes chrysoptera, Sharpe, Monoer. Parad. part iv. (1895).—Meyer, Abhandl. k. zool. Mus. Dresden, vii
no. 2, p. 49 (1898).
Diphyllodes magnificus, pt., Rothschild, Thierreich, Lief. 2, Parad. p. 36 (1898).

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4, DipHyLLODES XANTHOPTERA.
Diphyllodes wanthoptera, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) xvi. p. 110 (1896).—Meyer, Abhandl. k. zool. Mus
Dresden, vii. no. 2, p. 49 (1898).
Diphyllodes magnificus, pt., Rothschild, Thierreich, Lief. 2, Parad. p. 36 (1898).

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This is the bird which I considered to be the ordinary adult yellow-winged Diphyllodes of the Astrolabe

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Range, and the orange-winged birds, now separated as D. hunstein, I looked upon as merely very old

individuals. Dr. Meyer asserts that the colours of these birds change after the skin has been prepared.

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Dr. Loria’s specimens were procured in the Moroka district in July, August, and September. The male
had the iris chestnut, the bill sky-blue, and the feet blue. In a female the iris was chestnut, the bill sky-
blue or pearly grey, and the feet blue or ultramarine.

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Nae 5. DipHyLLODES HUNSTEINI.

 

Diphyllodes hunsteini, Sharpe, Monogr. Parad. part v. (1895).—Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genoy. (2) xvi. p. 109

(1896).—Meyer, Abhandl. k. zool. Mus. Dresden, vii. no. 2 p. 49 (1898).

Diphyllodes magnificus, pt., Rothschild, Thierreich, Lief. 2, Parad. p. 36 (1898).
Dr. Loria has met with this species at Hughibagu on the Hunter River in the Astrolabe Range. The iris
was ¢ . a © |e . LAP rpoay ¢ r :
: ae the bill sky-blue or pearly grey, and the feet sky-blue or cobalt (cf Salvad. 4. ¢.).
lave figur iS species. which has dee 6a TO i I ing
‘ ave figured this species, which bas deep orange-coloured wings, as the very old bird of the preceding.
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O upper figures represent D. vanthoptera, and | am not yet convinced that the two species are really

distinct, after wh: SCCOIGTh Onn . : ;
ct, after what one sees of the variation in the yellow and orange colour of the wings in D. seleucides.

Genus XXI. SCHLEGELIA.

Add :-— 1. SCHLEGELIA RESPUBLICA,

po Sharpe, Monogr. Parad. part im. (1894).—Id. Bull. Brit. Orn. Claby iv. ps ssl (1894).—
; Meyer, Abhandl. k. zool. Mus. Dresden, vii. no. 2 p. 49 (1898)
Schlegelia wilsoni, Rothschild, Tl oe

ulerreich, Lief, 2, Parad. p- 33 (1898).

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