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Famiuty IL PTILONORHYNCHID.

a. Plumage black, with orange-buff primaries, tipped with black ; round the eye
a large orange-yellow lappet

b. My ith no yellow lappet round the eye.
. Nasal aperture entirely concealed by feathers or av overhanging wattle.
Ue wy ith a metallic-green or golden shield on the breast or fore-neck.

_ Head ornamented with six thread-like plumes ending in a racket; a
large gular shield of metallic golden; no dorsal shield of feathers ;
flank-plumes greatly developed ;

b®. Head without the thread-like ae a very feane ie ‘ shield
of velvety black plumes
b’. With no metallic shield on the throat or chest.
c®, Nostrils shut in by a horny lobe like a shield
d°, Nostrils covered in by feathers.
Feet very strong, when outstretched reaching to the end of the tail.
a’. Loral plumes metallic; tail graduated ; plumage velvety black,
with a bare wattle along the gape and below the eye
6°. Loral plumes not metallic ; tail square
Crown with a long crest of orange or golden plumes ;
remainder of upper surface brown
Upper surface glossy golden, with a tuft of elongated plumes
on the forehead
o*. Feet much weaker, not reaching, when outstretched, beyond half
the tail We a.
6°. Nasal aperture not entirely covered with feathers.
With an erectile mantle-shield of fiery orange ; wings long, reaching
nearly to the tail :
d”. With no ornamental shield.
Bill slender, as high as it is broad at base; plumage of head com-
pressed and dense ee : ;
a ae stouter, higher than broad at ee
au ith a lateral sub-terminal notch on the upper mandible.

. Nostrils oval, with a posterior membrane, on which the frontal

feathers encroach ;_ bill longer and thinner, its depth at the

nostrils much less than the inner toe ; general colour brown,

with an ornamental nuchal patch in the male

>. Nostrils overhung by scanty plumes, but not concealed ; “bill

very stout, its depth at the nostrils heing e
of the inner toe without claw :
With a distinct festoon on the upper mandible,
notches on its cutting- edge

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formed by two

I. MACGREGORIA.
Macgregoria, De Vis, Ibis, 1897, p- 291

Nea Mis
Range. S.E. New Guinea.

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MacGRreGoria.

Parotia.

LopHorHIna.

LOBOPARADISEA.

Loria.

Pr1LONORHYNCHUS.

AMBLYORNIS.

CNEMOPHILUS.

PrionopuRA.

XANTHOMELUS.

SERICULUS.

CHLAMYDODERA.

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SCENOPG@ETES.

Type.
: . M. pulchra.