Paradisea mirabilis Reichenow

Lecroy, Mary, 2014, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393), pp. 1-165 : 110

Paradisea mirabilis Reichenow

Paradisea mirabilis Reichenow, 1901: 186 (Umgegend von Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen) .

Now considered a hybrid Paradisaea minor X Seleucidis melanoleuca . See Rothschild, 1903: 31–32; Rothschild, 1911: 358; Hartert, 1919: 130; Stresemann, 1930: 9–10; Mayr, 1962d: 204; Gilliard, 1969: 64–65; Fuller, 1995: 114–116; and Frith and Beehler, 1998: 516, pl. 15 (2).

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 679100 , [adult male], collected in 1901, alledgedly in the neighborhood of Madang (= Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen), 05.18S, 145.47E ( Frith and Beehler, 1998: 569), now Papua New Guinea. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Reichenow had a single specimen when he named P. mirabilis (it was figured in pl. 1, Journal für Ornithologie, 1902, without additional text); Rothschild (1903a: 32) placed it in the genus Janthothorax . Even in the original description, Reichenow considered the specimen to be a hybrid between Paradisaea and Seleucidis . The holotype is missing the elongated central tail feathers, but they are present in specimens that Rothschild acquired later (AMNH 294648, 679099, and 679101).