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SCHLEGELIA RESPUBLICA (p,,

Bare-headed Bird of Paradise.

Lophorina respublica, Bp. Conmart, IRencl, xo0K, jo, Vil (February 1850, note).—Id. Rev. et Mae
p- 124, note.—Sclater, Ibis, 1877, p. 493. =
Diphyllodes respublica, Bp. Compt. Rend. xxx. p. 291 (1850, note).—Id. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1850, p. 242.—
Id. Consp. Av. i. p. 413 (1850).—Id. Compt. Rend. xxxviii. p- 262 (1854).—Rosenb. Nat. ee
Ned. Ind. xxv. p. 247 (1863).—Id. J. f. O. 1864, p. 130.—Elliot, Mon. Parad. Introd. p. Xxvii af ce
(1873).—Meyer, Mitth. zool. Mus. Dresd. i. pp. 5-7 (1875).—Gould, B. New Guin , a a
(1876).—Cory, Beautiful & Curious B. pt. iii. ssi); Ree.
Paradisea wilsoni, Cass. Proc. Acad. Philad. 1850, p.57 (August).—Id. Journ. Acad. Philad. SoZ elsom esl
Gray, P. Z. 8. 1858, p. 194.—Id. Cat. B. New Guin. pp. 36, 59 (1859)—Td. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 436-—
Scl. P. Z.S. 1865, p. 465.—Schl. Neder]. Tijdschr. Dierk. iii. p. 249 (1866).—Id. Mus. ee Ce
p. 87 (1867).—Finsch, J. f. O. 1866, p. 136.—Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 16, no. 6250 (1870).—Waoler, Zool
Gart. 1873, p. 11, map 7.—Rosenb. Malay. Arch. p. 395 (1879).—Musschenbr. Dagboek, as 189 S04

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(1883).
Diphyllodes wilsonii, Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1857, p. 6.—Id. Proc. Linn. Soe. ii. p. 163 (1858).—Wallace, Proc
\i Zool. Soc. 1862, p. 160.—Newton, Ibis, 1865, p. 343.—Wall. Malay Arch. ii. pp. 405, 419 (1869).—

Beecari, Ann. Mus. Genov. vil. p. 713 (1875).—Sclater, Ibis, 1876, p. 251—Nehrk. J. f. 0. 1885, p. 34.—
Guillem. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1885, p. 654.—D’Hamonvy. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, xi. p. 510 (1886).

\ | Paradisea respublica, Finsch, Neu-Guinea, p. 173 (1865).
\ Schlegelia calva, Bernst. Nat. Tijdschr. Nederl, Ind. xxvii. p. 79 (1864).—Id. Nat. Tijdschr. Dierk. ii. p. 1 (1864).
\ —Id. J. f. O. 1864, p. 401.—Id. Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierk. ii. p. 320 (1865), iii. p. 4, pl. 7 (1866).
~R \ Paradisea calva, Schl. Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierk. ii. p. 1 (1864).—Finsch, Neu-Guinea, p. 173 (1865).—Rosenb.
+ Wy \ MT. orn. Ver. Wien, 1885, p. 31.
\ \ \ Schiegelia wilsoni, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. ii. p. 175 (1877).—Eudes-Deslongch. Ann. Mus. Caen, i. p. 34

(1880).—Witmer Stone, Proc. Philad. Acad. 1891, p. 448.
Schlegelia respublica, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. ix. p. 192 (1876).—Id. Orn. Papuasia, ete. ii. p. 642 (1881).—
Id. Age. Orn. Papuasia, ete. il. p. 162 (1890).

 

 

Tus wonderful Bird of Paradise was described in August, 1850, by the late Mr. John Cassin from a specimen

 

in imperfect condition which had been acquired in Paris by Dr. Wilson and presented by him to the Museum
of the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences. It was named Paradisea wilsont by Cassin, in honour of the donor,
to whose liberality the Philadelphia Museum owed so much. In February of the same year, however,
Bonaparte had published a short diagnosis of a new Bird of Paradise, which he called Lophorina respublica ;
and in 1877, when I was describing the family in the ‘ Catalogue of Birds,’ I pointed out that the only species
which answered to Bonaparte’s diagnosis, ‘“fasciculo e plumis elongatis nucha rubris,” was Lhpidornes
gulielmi-tertii of Meyer, and I therefore restored the name of wilsoni to the present species. In commenting upon
my conclusions Dr. Sclater has given us the whole history of the transaction, and it seems that the specimen

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cA described by Cassin in Philadelphia was actually the same as the one seen by Bonaparte in Europe. The
following are Dr. Sclater’s notes on the subject :-— The late Prince Bonaparte, having been allowed

to examine the (then unique) type specimen in question, before its transmission to Philadelphia, thought

the opportunity of describing a new Paradise-bird, and at the same time of promulgating his republican
- sympathies, too good to be lost, and in spite of the injunctions of the owner of the specimen, inserted the
bably drawn up from recollection), 1

name ‘respublica, with a short diagnosis (certainly erroneous, and pro
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a footnote to a paper which he was at the time engaged upon for the ‘Comptes Rendus.’
circumstances thus detailed by Dr. Sclater there is no choice left but to adopt the name a nee
for the species, as has been done by Count Salvadori; but I am inclined to agree with Mr. Witmer Stone
that ‘anyone would be justified in passing over such a description as Bouaparte’s and adopting the
first clear diagnosis, which, in the case of the present bird,

Bernstein was the first naturalist to discover the true habitat of the present species, which ae met with
both in Waigiou and Batanta. He described it as a new genus and species of Bird of Paradise, and the
name of Schlegelia happily remains to remind us of Bernstein’s prowess as a traveller and a oe
and at the same time of the great Director of the Leiden Museum, to whom science 1s so Geeply

is that of Cassin.”