Australian Museum Journal Description of the unique Parotia lawesii x Paradisaea rudolphi hybrid Bird of Paradise (Aves: Passeriformes: Paradisaeidae)
- Shortform:
- Frith and Frith, 1996, Rec. Aust. Mus. 48(2): 111–116
- Author(s):
- Frith, Clifford B.; Frith, Dawn W.
- Year published:
- 1996
- Title:
- Description of the unique Parotia lawesii x Paradisaea rudolphi hybrid Bird of Paradise (Aves: Passeriformes: Paradisaeidae)
- Serial title:
- Records of the Australian Museum
- Volume:
- 48
- Issue:
- 2
- Start page:
- 111
- End page:
- 116
- DOI:
- 10.3853/j.0067-1975.48.1996.283
- Language:
- English
- Date published:
- 18 September 1996
- Cover date:
- 18 September 1996
- ISSN:
- 0067-1975
- CODEN:
- RAUMAJ
- Publisher:
- The Australian Museum
- Place published:
- Sydney, Australia
- Subjects:
- AVES; SPECIATION
- Digitized:
- 23 March 2009
- Available online:
- 01 April 2009
- Reference number:
- 283
- EndNote package:
- EndNote file
- Title page:
- Title page (99kb PDF)
- Complete work:
- Complete work (951kb PDF)
Abstract
A unique female-plumaged Australian Museum specimen (AM O. 40100) of a hybrid between Lawes' Parotia Parotia lawesii and the Blue Bird of Paradise Paradisaea rudolphi is described, illustrated and compared with female-plumaged specimens of the putative parents. The hybrid, from the Baiyer Valley, Papua New Guinea, exhibits an external morphology intermediate between the two parent species. The informal common name—Schodde's Bird of Paradise—is applied to this new bird of paradise hybrid combination.