EPIMACHUS SPECIOSUS

(Bodd.).
Great Sickle-billed Bird of Par

adise.
De groote zwarte Paradys-vogel, Valentyn, Gesch.

Le Promerops brun de la Nouvelle Guinée, S
Le Grand Promerops de la Nouvelle Guiné

Amboina ete. p. 311 G26):

onnerat, Voy. Nouv. Guin. p. 164, pl. 100 (1776). |
oe é, Sonn. t. c. p. 166, pl. 101 (1776).—Daubent. Pl. Enl. vi. pl. 639 I
Le Grand Oiseau de Paradis noir, Forster in Forrest Voy. Madag. et Nouv. Guin. p. 158 (1780, ex oe

Paradisea migra major, Forster, Zool. Ind. p. 34 (1781, ex Valentyn). ee

Black Paradise Bird, Penn. Ind. Zool. 2nd ed. p. 22 (1790, ex Valentyn).

 

New Guinea Grand Promerops, Lath. Gen. Syueee roe p- 694 (1782, ex Sonnerat),

Grand Promerops, Lath. Gen. Syn. p. 695 (1782, ex Sonnerat).

Le Promerops de la Nouvelle Guinée, Daubent. Pl. Enl. vi. pl. 638 (92).

Le Promerops a ventre rayé, Montb. Hist. Nat. Ois. vi. Dealer @liice))s

Le Grand Promerops a paremens frisés, Montb. Hist. Nat. Ois. vi. pe 47283):

Upupa striata, Bodd. Tabl. Pl. Enl. p. 39 (1783).

Upupa speciosa, Bodd. t. c. p. 39.

Merops brunneus, Scop. Del. Flor. et Faun. Insubr. ii. p- 90 (1786, ex Sonnerat).

Mercps maximus, Scop. op. cit. p. 90 (1786, ex Sonnerat).

Upupa fusca, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 468 (1788, ex Sonnerat).

Upupa magna, Gmelin, tom. cit. p. 468 (1788, ex Sonnerat).—Hliger, Prodr. p. 211 (1811).

Upupa papuensis, Latham, Ind. Orn. i. p- 279 (1790).

Upupa superba, Latham, tom. cit. p. 279 (1790).

Le Promerops raye, Vieill. Ois. Dor. i. Hist. Nat. Promerops, p. 18, pl. 7 (1802).

Le Grand Promerops, Vieill. op. cit. p. 18, pl. 8 (1802).

Le Promerops a large parure, Levaill. Hist. Nat. Promerops et Guépiers, pls. 13, 14, 15 (1806).

Paradisea nigra (nec Gm.), Shaw, Gen. Zool. vii. pt. 2, p. 488 (1809, ex Pennant).

Promerops striatus, Shaw, op. cit. viii. pt. 1, p. 144 (1811).

Promerops superbus, Shaw, op. cit. viii. pt. 1, p. 145 (1811).

Faleinellus magnus, Vieill. Analyse, p. 47 (1816).

Epimachus magnus, Cuvier, Régne An. i. p. 400 Gls) — Bp. Conspanepein (1850).—Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i.
p- 215 (1851).— Reichenb. Handb. spec. Orn., Scansoriz, p. 326, tab. 608. figs. 4481-82 (1853) —
Wallace, Ibis, 1861, p. 287.—Id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, pp. 154, 157, 160.—Finsch, Neu-Guinea,
p- 165 (1865).—Wall. Malay Arch. ii. p. 414, cum fig. pp. 415, 419 (1869).—Ward, Proc. Zool. Soe.
1873, p. 743.—Rosenb. Reist. naar Geelvinkb. pp. 17, 101 (1875).—Cory, Beautiful & Curious Birds,
pt. v. (1883).

Faleinellus fuscus, Vieill. Nouv. Dict. d’ Hist. Nat. xxviii. p. 164 (1819).

Faleinellus superbus, Vieill. Nouv. Dict. d’ Hist. Nat. xxviii. p. 166, pl. M. 32, fir. 3 (1819).

Epimachus superbus, Temm. Man. i. p. Ixxxvi (1820).—Wagler, Syst. Av. Epimachus, sp. 1 (1827).—Less. Traité,
p- 321, pl. 73. fig. 1 (1831).—Temm. PI. Col. Tabl. Méth. p. 72 (1840).—Rosenb. J. f. O. 1864, ps 238

Cinnamolegus papuanus, Less. Hist. Nat. Ois. Parad. Syn. p. 32, Hist. Nat. p. 233, pls. 39, 40 (1835).

gE Epimachus speciosus, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 94 (1848).—Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Coraces, p. 94 (1867).—Id. N. 'T. D.

~ iv. pp. 17, 49, 50 (1871).—Elliot, Monogr. Parad. pl. 19 (1873).—Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov.

a Vil. p. 785 (1875), ix. p. 190 (1876), x. p. 156 (1877).—Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. iii. p. 162

(1877).—Gould, B. New Guinea, i. pl. 9 (1878).—Rosenb. Malay. Arch. p. 552 (1879).—D’Albertis,
Nuova Guinea, p. 582 (1880).—Salvad. Orn. Papuasia, ete. ii. p. 541 (1881).—Cory, Beautiful &
Curious Birds, pt. v., text (1883).— Guillem. P. Z.S. 1885, p. 648.—D’Hamonv. Bull. Soc. Zool. France,
xl. p. 509 (1886).—Salvad. Age. Orn. Papuasia, ii. p. 152 (1890).

Epimachus maximus, Sclater, Journ. Proc. Linn. Soc. ii. p. 163 (1858).—Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858, p. 190.—
Id. Cat. B. New Guinea, pp. 21, 55 (1859).—Id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1861, p. 433.—Id. Hand-l. B. i.
p- 105, no. 1274 (1869).—D’Albert. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 558.—Sclater, tom. cit. p. 697.—
Beccari, Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. vii. p. 710 (1875).—Musschenbr. Dagboek, pp. 201, 231 (1883 ).—
Rosenb. MT. orn. Ver. Wien, 1885, p. 53.

Paradisea nigra, Echlegel, J. f. O. 1861, p. 386.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Tue above elaborately detailed synonymy has been chiefly copied from the ‘ Ornitologia della Papuasia’ of
Count Salvadori, who has worked out the literary history of the species with his usual exhaustive zeal.

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