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Id » Paradisen, Drepananax, Sharpe, Bull. Brit. Orn. Cli; iv. prs (L894) = D. bruni.
i. Range. New Guinea.
F IX. EPIMACHUS.
; 2S Type.
me Antic. Epimachus, Cuvier, Régne Anim. i. p. 407 (1817) es oa es E. speciosus.
Cinnamolegus, Less. Hist. Nat. Ois. Parad. Syn. p. 32 (1833) E.. speciosus.
Dw Range. New Guinea.
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C.. magnifier Key to the Species.
a. Tail with a steel-blue or steel-green gloss ; back spangled with metallic-green or steel-blue.
Elongated flank-plumes black ; under surface of body black, with an oily-olive gloss,
slightly inclining to purplish 1. speciosus.
. Elongated flank-plumes brown; under surface of body brown, with a distinct olive
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agnfica, . Elongated flank-plumes green, like the abdomen, contrasting af We emel eee
chest ; throat black, followed by acoppery-red thorax 3. astrapioides.
2. alberti. 6. Tail and wings with a violet-purple gloss ; spangles on back eit: purple oo: 4. ellioti.
) ECVCELLE
Sus-ramity I], PARADISEIN .
: Key to the Genera.
iy . No fleshy-yellow wattle round the eye.
Tail of extreme length and graduated, the central feathers broad
like the others, exceeding the length of the body of the bird, and not
Type. reduced to narrow plumes or wire-like shafts
P. duivenbodit a’. Tail twice the length of the body; round the hind-neck a metallic
frill so et eee ek 10. Asrrapra.
6”. Tail four times the rca of the ody of ane bird; no metallic frill
Tone round the hind-neck 11. Asrrarcuia.
tiie c’. Tail shorter, scarcely exceeding ate length of the body of the bird; no
metallic frill round the hind-neck .— . CALASTRAPIA.
6°. ‘Tail square or slightly rounded, with the two central feathers enormously
elongated and reduced to shaft-like plumes, either very narrow and
5 slightly spatulate at the ends (Paradisornis) or like wire (Paradsea)
nin or whalebone (Uranornis), with the webs of the long flank-feathers
: disconnected near their tips and without radu.
d”, Flank-plumes very long, full, and ornamental, reaching om the tail
_ by more than the wing’s length 13. Parapisea.
Pape . Flank-plumes ornamental, but not reaching bey a the al ‘ as a
Be oy = as the wing’s length.
D. aa a. Centre tail-feathers as in Paradisea, but the flank-plumes not so
dense and having thread-like ends like a cae web; on the
throat a metallic-green shield 14, TricnoparaDIsEs.
1. albertisi. 6°, Centre tail-feathers reduced to horny shafts like Senet with

no barbs or web of any kind ; flank-plumes red, with thread-

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like ends; a metallic-green shield on the throat ge re 15. Uranornis.

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