APPENDIX.

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3, CrASPEDOPHORA INTERCEDENS.
ee - dophora. intercedens, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. xviii. p. 426 (1882).—Id. Orn. Papuasia, ill, p. 552 Coe
oe . 2) x. p. 821 (1891), xvi. p. 108 (1896).—Sharpe, Monogr. Parad. part ii. (1893),

Id. Ann. Mus. Genov. ( §

_Jd. Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, iv. p. x (1894).—Me

p. 40 (1898). oe
Ptilorhis intercedens, Rothschild, Thierreich, Lief. 2, Parad. p.

yer, Abhandl. k. zool. Mus. Dresden, vii. no. 2,

25 (1898).

Dr. Loria collected several specimens at Tuajagoro and Bujakori, in August 1890; these are villages
on the Kemp Welch River, to the east of Port Moresby. The soft parts were as follows :—‘ Iris maroon ;
bill black ; feet black, or dull lavender-colour in adult birds, In the females and young birds the bill was

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dusky horn-colour and the feet greyish. Their food consisted of fruit, and ¢ ‘ ,
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Dr. Loria has also met with the species in the Astrolabe Range.

Genus II. HETEROPTILORHIS (antea, p. x).

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Craspedophora mantoui, Sharpe, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, iv. p. xii (1894).—Id. Monogr. Parad. part vi. (1896).—
Suchetet, Hybrides, i. p. 420 (1897).—Meyer, Abhandl. k. zool. Mus. Dresden, vil. no. 2, p. 41
(1898).
Ptilorhis mantoui, Rothschild, Thierreich, Lief. 2, Parad. p. 25 (1898).

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Dr. Meyer points out that the white on the under surface of this species distinguishes it from all the

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other Rifle-birds. M. Suchetet, in his zeal for the discovery of hybrids in a state of nature, has fallen foul

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of the present bird (described, too, by his countryman, Dr. Oustalet), and actually suggests the possibility

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of its beine a hybrid between Craspedophora magnifica and Seleucides niericans. This is certainly one of the
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most extraordinary propositions ever conceived in the history of ornithology.

Genus IV. PARYPHEPHORUS.

AG ], ParypHEPHORUS DUIVENBODII.
Paryphephorus duivenbodii, Meyer, Abhandl. k. zool. Mus. Dresden, vii. no. 2, p. 41 (1898).—Rothschild,
Thierreich, Lief. 2, Parad. p. 22 (1898).—Sharpe, Monogr. Parad. part vill. (1898).

As Dr. Meyer has pointed out (/. ¢.), and Mr. Rothschild has also determined, this genus should be

placed close to Craspedophora, and not separated from it by the intervention of Janthothorax, as I had
proposed in 1894,

Genus V. IANTHOTHORAX.

ING ll. IAnrHOTHORAX BENZBACHI.

Fanthothoraw benzbachi, Sharpe, Monogr, Parad. part vi. (1896).—Meyer, Abhandl. k. zool. Mus. Dresden, vii.
no. 2, p. 41 (1898).—Rothschild, Thierreich, Lief. 2, Parad. p. 22 (1898).

Genus VI. SELEUCIDES.

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Nadie I. SeLeuctpes niGRICANS.

 

Seleucides nigricans, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) xvi. p. 109 (1896)
(1897).—Reichen. J. f. O. Sea ae i
Seleucides ignotus (orster), Rothschild, Novit. Zool. \
(1898).—Meyer, Abhandl. k. zoo]. Mus.

Sharpe, Monogr. Parad. part vil.

. p. 86 (1898).—Id. Thierreich, Lief. 2, Parad. p. 29
Dresden, vii. no. 2 p. 41 (1898)
Dr. Meyer gives the following note f; his di 5
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alone or in pairs. It eri 5 i om his diary of 1873 :—« Iris red; feet rose-red. Flies about
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J Walu-wau, in a high key in the throat, so that one can easily locate

 

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