. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. Birds. Frith & Frith 44 1997 117(1). Figure 1. Map of mainland New Guinea showing the border between Irian Jaya (IJ) and Papua New Guinea (PNG) and the distribution of the two Paradigalla species based on collected specimens and published field sightings that are considered reliable. Note: Solid circles = P. brevicauda; circles with stars within = P. (intermedia) brevicauda; open circles = P. carunculata; } = P. sp. sighted in Fakfak Mountains (see text). Note: a single circle may encompass several collecting locations.
. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. Birds. Frith & Frith 44 1997 117(1). Figure 1. Map of mainland New Guinea showing the border between Irian Jaya (IJ) and Papua New Guinea (PNG) and the distribution of the two Paradigalla species based on collected specimens and published field sightings that are considered reliable. Note: Solid circles = P. brevicauda; circles with stars within = P. (intermedia) brevicauda; open circles = P. carunculata; } = P. sp. sighted in Fakfak Mountains (see text). Note: a single circle may encompass several collecting locations. Locations of some key features are indicated by (left to right): V = Vogelkop; large F = Fakfak; W = Weyland Mts.; U = Utakwa River; G = Mt. Goliath; F = Fly River; H = Mt. Hagen; M = Madang; L = Lae; P = Port Moresby. a tail length (see below) greater than recorded in that species (Table 1). In particular the central tail feather length of the holotype of intermedia (75 mm) is far more compatible with that of P. brevicauda than with P. carunculata (Table 1). Moreover, we are able to confirm Mayr & Gilliard's (1954) comment that specimens of P. brevicauda from the extreme eastern part of the species range (Mt. Hagen and Bismarck Range) are indistinguishable from those from the extreme west (Weyland Mountains). Given that we found that the dried upper facial wattles (lemon yellow in life) were a mustard-yellow but the lower ones (blue in life) were blackish in all skins of adult P. brevicauda, the differences in wattle colours of live birds are clearly reflected in dried skins. That the upper wattle was mustard-yellow and the lower one blackish in the intermedia type material strongly suggests that, if not blue in life, the lower wattle was to have become so. Two immature BMNH P. brevicauda specimens ( and from Tomba, Papua New Guinea and Mt. Kunupi, Irian Jaya, respectively) have lower wattles mustard-yellow as their upper ones but with darker blackish
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