DiPHYLLODES MAGNIFICA

Magnificent Bird of Paradise.

(Penn.).

Oiseau de Paradis de la Nouvelle Guinée dit Ie Magnifique,
Le Magnifique de la Nouvelle Guinée, ou Le
Zool. Ind. p. 38 (1781).

LT? Oiseau de Parra ae le Magnifique, Sonnerat, Voy. Nouv. Guin. p. 163, pl. 98 (1776).

ce ae ae : ce an iene ag 631).—Scop. Del. Faun. et Flor.
megabe ee ; Syst. Nat. 1. p. 401 (1788).—Lath. Ind. Orn. i, p- 195 (1790).—Daud.
Praité d’Orn. ii. p. 273 (1800).—Shaw, Gen. Zool. vii. p- 492, pl. 62 (1809).—Bechst. Kurze Uebers
p- 132 (1811).—Vieill. N. Dict. d’Hist. Nat. xxx. p- 110, pl. M 7 (1819).—Id. Enc. Méth. iii. p 907,
pl. 143. fig. 2 (1823).—Steph. Gen. Zool. xiv. Pp. 76 (1826).—Wagl. Syst. Av., Paradisea, sp. 4 . 101
(1827).—Less. Man. d’Orn. i. Pp. 395 (1828).—Id. Voy. Coquille, Zool. i. p. 446 (1828) —Drapiez
Dict. Class. xiii. p. 45 (1828),—Cuy, Régne Anim. i. p. 427 (1829).—Less. Traité d’Orn. p. 338
(1831).—Wallace, P. Z. S. 1862, pp. 154-161.—Finsch, Neu-Guinea, p. 173 (1865).—Rosenb. Reist.

D’Aubent. Pl. Enl. iii, pl. 631.
Manucode a bouquets, Montb. Hist. N

at. Ois. iii. p. 198 (1774).—Forst.

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Magnificent Paradise- Bird, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. D> A0d5 Dh WO) (C17S2 s joi.)
Paradisea speciosa, Bodd. Tabl. Pl. Enl. p. 38 (1783).—Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 322 (1847).—Id. P. Z.S. 1848,
p- 194.—Id. Cat. B. New Guin. pp. 36, 59 (1859).—Id. P. Z.
p- 385.—Id. Mus. Pays-B

    
  
   
   
    
 
  
    
   
   
 
 
 
  
  
   
   
  
 
 
 
 
  
  
          

S. 1861, p. 436.—Schl. J. f. O. 1861,

as, Coraces, p. 86 (1867).—Id. Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. iv. pp. 17, 49

(1871).—Rosenb. Malay. Archip. pp. 395, 557 (1879).—Musschenbr. Dagboek, pp- 190, 222 (1893).—
D’Hamonv. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, xi. p. 510 (1886).

Le Magnifique, Vieill. Ois. dor. ii. Ois. Paradis, p. 15, pl. 4 (1802),—Less. V
ll. p. 654 (1828).

Diphyllodes magnifica, Gray, List Gen. B. p- 39 (1840).—Id. ibid. p. 53 (1841).—Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 413
(1850).—Gray, List Gen. & Subgen. B. p. 65 (1855).—Wallace, Ibis, 1861, p: 287.—Rosenb. Nat.
Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind. xxv. p. 246 (1863).—Id. J. f. O. 1864, p. 130.—Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. vii.
p. 970 (1875).—Id. op. cit. ix. p. 192 (1876).—D’ Alb. Nuova Guinea, p. 582 (1880).—Eudes-Deslongch.
Ann. Mus. d’Hist. Nat. Caen, i. p. 32 (1880).—Salvad. Orn. Papuasia, ete. ii. p. 634 (1881).—
Guillem. P, Z. S. 1885, p. 654.—Salvad. Aggiunte Orn. Papuasia, etc. ii. p. 160 (1890).

Lophorina surperba (err.), Bp. C. R. xxx. p. 181 note (1850).

Diphyllodes speciosa, Scl. Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. p. 163 (1858).—Wallace, Malay Archip. ii. pp. 403, 404,
cum fig. (1869).—Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 16, no. 6251 GISi/0)) Pb aero oa Sono OeaeSols
tom. cit. p. 697.—Wagner, Zool. Gart, 1873, p. 11, pl. 1, map 5.—Elliot, Monogr. Parad. 7 ele
(1873).—Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. vii. p. 783 (1875).—Meyer, Mitth. zool. Mus. Dresd. i. pp. 5-8
(1875).—Gould, B. New Guinea, i. pl. 23 (1876).—Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. x. p. 153 (1877).—
Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. iii. p. 174 (1877).—Rosenb. Mitth. orn. Ver. Wien, 1885, p. 31.

Diphyllodes speciosus, Beccari, Ann. Mus. Gen. vii. p. 712 (1875).—Scl. Ibis, 1876, p. 251.

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Tuts fine bird has been known to science for more than a hundred years, but it cannot be said to be very
common in collections, and it does not arrive in such large numbers for the purposes of the plume-trade
as do some of the other Birds of Paradise. It appears to be an inbabitant of North-western New Guinea,
and Count Salvadori states that it is found in Salawati and at many places on the mainland of New

Guinea itself. He mentions the following localities where the species has been found by the Italian travellers
D’Albertis and Beccari and by the hunters employed by Mr. Bruijn :—Andai, Mansema, Arfak, Profi,
Hatam, Wa-Samson, Gunon Morait, and Warmon.

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The late Dr. Bernstein procured the species at Soroug, and Lesson near Dorey. According to

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The following account is from the pen of Dr. Beccari :—

** Diphyllodes speciosus is also pretty common, and easy to kill when one wes leant to know its song,
which resembles a kind of ‘teia-teia-teia’ repeated several times with diminishing force. The sound

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