DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF EPIMACHUS, 
FROM THE ASTROLABE RANGE, S. E. NEW GUINEA. 
By Dr. E. P. Ramsay, F.R.S.E., F.G.S., kc. 
EpIMACHUS MACLEAYANiE, Sp. nOV. 
Ad^dt J/a^e.— Total length, 3ft. 6 in. ; tail, 2ft. 7-3 ; wing, 7-2 j 
tarsus, 2-2 ; bill from forehead, 3*2 ; from gape, 3-1 ; along the 
curve of the culmen from the forehead, 3"3 ; height of bill at base, 
03; width at gape, 0-6; at nostril, 04] the longest side chest 
plumes, 4-7 by 2-1 in breadth at the tip ; flank plumes, 6-2 ; the 
long decomposed flank plumes, 8"6 inches. The head, throat, back, 
wings, rump, and all the upper surface velvety black, all except 
the neck, wings and rump, with rich metallic glossy scale-like 
feathers with steel-blue, green, and violet reflections ; rump and 
upper tail-coverts velvety black with steel-blue tips to the feathers, 
two centre tail feathers, long, narrow (3-5 in width), black, with 
blue and purple reflections, the others black without any sheen or 
gloss. The chest, breast, and all the under surface olive-brown, 
with rosy mauve reflections, plumes on side of the chest, broadly 
margined with steel-blue green and violet reflections, in shape 
somewhat triangular, being greatly expanded at the tips, the lower 
side-plumes shorter, margined and tipped with rose-mauve, puce 
and violet reflections, the longer plumes nearest the flanks with 
the outer webs only, mauve ; the loose and somewhat decomposed 
elongated flank-plumes reaching to beyond the under tail-coverts, 
light brown or of a pale fawn-brown tint, thighs black ; upper tail- 
coverts and tail below, black; legs, feet, and bill black ; there is a 
rich sheen of rosy-mauve over the whole of the under surface from 
the lower part of the neck to the flanks, which shows a rose-lilac 
tint in certain lights, and is slightly deeper in tint on the lower 
side-plumes. 
240 DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OP EPIMACHUS. 
This fine species which was obtained at the foot of the Astrolabe 
Range, is in some respects allied to E. magnus, but is very distinct 
from that species in the length of the tail, in the colour of the under 
surface, and in the rosy tint of the side and flank-plumes.