URANORNIS RUBRA (Daudl.)

Red Bird of Paradise.

Paradisea rubra, Lacép. Mus. Paris.—Daud. Tr. d’Orn. i}, yp. 97
MO. Parad. i. 5-23 (1806). “i. p. 271 (1800).—Vieil
e Vaill. Ois. Parad. i. p. 23 (1806).—Cuv. Réon. An. i p 403 (1
= te Aves. sf plea lOe ; 817 Pa A m4 . - :

a: - 2) Ranz. Flem. di Zool. iii. pt. 4, p. 68, pl. xii. fie c as N. Dict, d'Hist. Nat. xxx.
( De ¢ aos: 1. p. 152, pl. 99 (1825).—Dumont, Dict. ce : : a —Vieill. Ene. Méth. p. 907
Gen. Zool. xiv. p. 76 (1826).—Less. Voy. Coq., Zool. pl. 27 (1826). eS CDNA) = Sigstioms
: sp. 3 (1827).—Less. Man. d’Orn. i. p. 393 (1 ae “ 2 a agl. Syst. Av., Paradisea p. 101
: : : : on as - Voy. Coq., Zool. i ‘ 7 ie z
Dict. Class, Hist. Nat. xiii. p. 46 (Jan. 1828).—Cuv. Reon ee ee 2, p. 660 (1828).—Dra
d’Orn. p. 336, pl. 37. fig. 1 (1831).—Id. Ois. Parad. § ne ar io 1. p. 427 (1829).—Lesg. Traité
ey } s. Parad. Syn. p- 8, & Hist. N; . uité
(1835).—Swains. Classif. B. ii. p. 331 (1837).—Gray & Mit h i 2 Moe UT wks wa jy, aCe )
E : . We ®& Mitche il ary as 3 ’ Ci
Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 106 (1849).—Bp. Cons ae no B. ii, p. 322, pl. 79 Csa7)
Ms Moore, Car B re aa Ponep: Av. i. p. 413 (1850).—Cab. Mus. Hein. i p. 214
\ a. ; » Vat. b. Mus. i. I. Co, ii. p. 548 (1856-58).—Se i ce ae
a Sn Proc. Zool. Soc. een pe rone tr Caen ae oe Linn. Soc.

a IEC a “ i ae JAL. els I o 00 BO, & Ee
; , i 1859, p. 111, 1861, pp. 211, 287, 290.—Gray, Proc. Zoo] Soc eo i ee 6

86 Benes er - - 400]. Soc. 1861, pp. 431, 436.—Se
fl a 385.—Wall. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1862, pp. 157-161.—Rosenb ee a
nd. xxv. p. 245 (1863).— ; 3 ( : i me senb. Nat. ‘lijdschr. Neder
ae e i ce 6 > Id. de f O. 1864, p. 130.—Finsch, Neu-Guinea, p. 173 ae 2 Nederl.
: schr. Dierk. ii. p. 249 (1866).—Id. Mus. Pays-Bas, Coraces p. 84 (1867) 7" Fe = een, Nat
Bell 269 ).—W ee ee : 8, p. 0% (1867 ).—Id. Dierent. Vogels
ee ee) et Mello Archip. ii. pp. 351, 353, 367, 397, 419 (1869).—Beces an oe.
Genov. vil. p. 713 (1875).—Salvad. op. cit. viii. p. 402 (1876 "2a eet Aas

Oise Dora. peels Cistg)\==

plez,

Nf i ).—Rosenb. Malay. Arc 35
once on : : ) . Malay. Arch. p. 3:
(1879). peter Proc. Zool. Soc.-1881, p. 450.—Nehrk. J. f. O. 1885, p. 34 = Guile _ - 2
poe 1885, p. 653.—D’ Hamonv. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1886 pp. 506, 509 7 ae
Le Paradis rouge, Vieill. Ois. Dor. ii. p. 14, pl. 3 (1802) | at
I? Oiseau de paradis rouge, Le Vaill. Ois. Parad. i. pl. 6 (1806)
Paradisea sanguinea, Shaw, Gen. Zool. vii. pt. 1, p. 487, pl. 59 (1809).—Temm. Man. d’Orn. i lv (1820
at "d s x case G “ . " os ‘ ; : aie nM. 1. p. Vi \ 820 aes
ae ant Le Linn. Soe. xii. p. 300 (1821).—Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 16, no. 6249 (1870) o
Monogr. Parad. pl. 4 (1873).—Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genoy. vii. p. 782 (1875).—Gould ‘Bird of oN
. . © —) 1 _ . . : ae : 2 :
a; ieee ee (1877).—Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. ili. p. 170 (1877).—Eudes-Deslongch. Ann
| us. Caen, i. p. 25 (1880).—Cory, Beautiful and Curious Birds, part vi. Cig manner
Dagboek, pp. 188, 221 (1883).—Rosenb. Mitth. orn. Ver. Wien, 1885, p. 31.
Red Bird of Paradise, Lath. Gen. Hist. Birds, i. p. 186 (1822).
: Uranornis rubra, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. ix. p. 191 (1876).—Id. Orn. Papuasia, etc. ii. p. 623 (1881 ).—
Id. op. cit. iii. p. 553 (1882).—Id. Age. Orn. Papuasia, ii. p. 160 (1890). |

 

 

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illiant a flank-plumes of this Bird of Paradise would suggest that it is closely allied to Paradisea
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| Se and P. decora. I fully agree, however, with Count Salvadori as to the advisability of separating
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generically from the genus Paradisea, as the extraordinary form of the central tail-feathers, the erectile

tufts of feathers on each side of the head, avd the composition of the flank-plumes are all characters of

 

sufficient weight to justify its separation.
Although some writers have recorded the species from New Guinea, it would seem that all statements as
| to its occurrence in the Great Papuan Island must be considered to be erroneous, and the home of the Red
Bird of Paradise is undoubtedly in the islands of Waigiou and Batanta. It will doubtless also be found in
some of the adjacent islands, as it was collected in the small island of Ghemien by the late Dr. Bernstein.
The development of the central tail-feathers in the adult male of this species is one of the most curious
this extraordinary family of birds. The

and interesting features in the economy of any species belonging to
male resembles the female at first, but

female lacks the beautiful decorations of the male, and the young
gradually assumes the adult plumage. Count Salvadori
specimens, believes that the first change takes place in the fe
plumes make their appearance, and that probably at the same time the centra
development, while the red flank-plumes are the last to appear,

The central tail-feathers are at first shorter than the others, and as they grow the web disappears from
the middle of the feather, leaving a spatula or racket at the end. At first the shaft is brown, and Count

Salvadori thinks that the black and hollowed shaft of the adult is assumed only by successive moults; but ]
nt that the shaft of the feather broadens and

athers of the head, where the beautiful green
1 tail-feathers commence their

fancy that the change takes place more rapidly, as it is evide

ump:

,as a result of the examination of a large series of

 
  
  
   
   
   
   
    
   
   
  
  
  
 
   
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
  
   
  
  
  
 
  
 
  
  
  

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