4 SELEUCIDES NIGRICANS (Shaw). Twelve-wired Bird of Paradise. Oiseau de Paradis blanc, Forster, in Forrest, Voy. Moluq. et Nouy. Guin. p. 160 (1780: ex V Oiseau de Paradis noir et peu connu, Forst. t. c. pp. 154, 160. no. 6 (1780: ex Valentyn). Paradisea candida (pt.), Forst. Zool. Ind. pp. 31, 35, 36, var. secunda (1781: ex Valentyn), Paradisea ignota, Forst. t. c. pp. 31, 36 (1781: ex Valentyn). Paradisea alba, var. B, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 402 (1788: ex Forst.).—Gerini, Ornith. tab. 65. fig. 1—Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. p. 197 (1790).—Blumenb. Abbild. naturh. Gegen, pl. 96 (1810).—Bechst. Kurze Uebers. p. 133 (1811).—Cuv. Régn. Anim. i. p. 403 (1817).—Schl. J. f. O. 1861, p. 386. Paradisea melanoleuca, Daud. Tr. d’Orn. ii. p. 278 (1800). Le Manucode a douze filets, Vieill. Ois. Dor. ii. p. 29, pl. 13 (1802). Le Nébuleux, Levaill. Ois. Parad. i. pls. 16, 17 (1806). Paradisea nigricans, Shaw, Gen. Zool. vii. pt. 2, p. 489, pls. 60, 61 (1809).—Steph. Gen. Zool. xiv. pt. 1, Ao (1826). Paradisea violacea, Bechst. Kurze Uebers. p. 133 (1811). Paradisea vaillanti, Shaw, Nat. Misc. xxiv. pl. 1025. Le Promerops multifil, Levaill. Hist. Nat. Prom. et Guép. p. 38, pl. 17 (1806).—Less. Man. d’Orn. ii. p. 6 (1828). Falcinellus resplendescens, Vieill. N. Dict. d’Hist. Nat. xxviii. p- 165 (1819).—Id. Enc. Méth. p. 581 (1823).—Id. Gal. Ois. i. p. 307, pl. 185 (1825).—Less. Traité d’Orn. p. 322 (1831).—Drap. Dict. Class. xiv. p. 293 (1845). Epimachus albus, Temm. Man. d’Orn. i. Introd. p. Ixxxvi (1820).—Wagl. Syst. Av., Epimachus, sp. 9, p. 121 (1827).—Cuv. Régne Anim. i. p. 440 (1829).—Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 94 (1848).—Id. P. Z.S. 1858, p- 190.—Id. Cat. B. New Guin. pp. 21, 55 (1859).—Id. P. Z. S. 1861, p- 435.— Wallace, P. Z.S. 1862, p. 160.—Finsch, Neu-Guinea, p. 165 (1865).—Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Coraces, p. 95 (1867).—Id. Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierk. iv. p. 49 (1871).—Musschenbr. Dagboek, pp. 202, 234 (1883).—Rosenb. Mitth. orn. Ver. Wien, 1885, p. 53. Twelve-wired Paradise-bird, Lath. Gen. Hist. iii. p. 199, pl. 48 (1822), Seleucides acanthylis, Less. Ois. Parad. Syn. p. 29, Hist. Nat. p. 229, pls. 36, 37 (¢ ad.), pl. 38 (6 juy.) (1835).—Id. Compl. de Buff., Ois. p. 540 (1838). Nematophora alba, Gray, List Gen. B. p. 12 (1840). Seleucides albus, Gray, List Gen. B. Addenda, p. 1 (1840).—Id. List Gen. 2nd ed. p. 15 (1841).—Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 412 (1850).—Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 215 (1851).—Scl. Journ. Linn. Soe. ii. p. 163 (1858),— Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 105, no. 1275 (1869).—D’Alb. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. x. pp. 13, 20 (1877).— Id. Nuova Guin. p. 484 (1880). Seleucides alba, Reichenb. Scansorie, p. 331, tab. 612. figs. 4092-93 (1853).—Rosenb. J. f. O. 1861, p. 46.— Wallaces > Z-55 18625 pp. 156, 158) 160—Id. Malay Archip. ii. pp. 388, 412, 419, cum tab. (1869).—Elliot, Monogr. Parad. pl. xxii. (1873).—Scl. P.Z.S. 1873, p. 697.—Beccari, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vii. p. 713 (1875).—Salvad. t. c. p. 785.—D’Alb. Nuova Guin. pp. 34, 345, 372, 456, 484, 485 (1880).—Eudes-Deslongch. Ann. Mus. d’Hist. Nat. Caen, i. p. 13 (1880).—Scl. P.Z.S. 1881, p. 450.—D’Hamonv. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, xi. p. 509 (1886). Ptiloris nebulosus, Licht. Nomencl. Av. Mus. Berol. p. 10 (1854). Seleucides resplendens, Rosenb. Naturk. Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind. xxv. p. 238 (1863).—Id. J. f. O. 1864, p. 123. Epimachus resplendens, Rosenb. Reist. naar Geelvinkb. pp. 101, 116 (1875). Seleucides ignota, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. viii. p. 403 (1876), ix. p. 191 (1876), x. p. 154 (1877).— D’Alb. & Salvad. op. cit. xiv. p. 107 (1879).—D’ Alb. Nuova Guin. pp. 582, 588 (1880). Seleucides niger (nec Shaw), Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. iii. p. 159 (1877).—Forbes, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 333.— Goodwin, Ibis, 1890, p. 150. Epimachus resplendescens, Rosenb. Malay. Archip. p. 552 (1879). Seleucides nigricans, Salvad. Orn. Papuasia, ete. ii. pp. 561, 680 (1881).—Gould’s B. New Guinea, i. pls. 14, 15 (1881).—Guillem. P. Z.S. 1885, p. 650 (Salawati).—Salvad. Aggiunte Orn. Papuasia, etc. ii. p. 157 (1890), iii. p. 241 (1891).—Sharpe, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, iv. p. xii (1894).—Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) xvi. p. 109 (1896).—Rothschild, Novit. Zool. iii. pp. 531, 633 (1896). alentyn). As Count Salvadori has pointed out, the earlier names of Paradis ea alba, P. ignota, and P. melanoleuca are not applicable to this bird, as all of them convey a false impression of its coloration, or are founded Wi CCS KOA Xi FO fo & osm0 2 O. JUIU UL } I } } LZ o 2 ds iss fy 0 2 OOO HOSA GS & OGR OR O, 920. A 7% ; H FE HG ix i RIK F| an