Paradise Riflebird

Here the details of the Paradise Riflebird named bird below:

SCI Name:  Ptiloris paradiseus
Protonym:  Ptiloris paradiseus Zool.J. 1 p.481
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Paradisaeidae / Ptiloris
Taxonomy Code:  parrif1
Type Locality:  No locality [= northern New South Wales].
Author:  Swainson
Publish Year:  1825
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

Ptiloris
(syn. Lophorina Ϯ Paradise Riflebird L. paradisea) Gr. πτιλον ptilon  feather; ῥις rhis, ῥινος rhinos  nostrils; "Genus. PTILORIS. Mihi.  Tribe Tenuirostres.*  Family. Meliphagidæ.  Vigors. Mihi.   GENERIC CHARACTERS.   Rostrum longissimum, compressum, falciforme.  Nares basales, plumosi, paertura lineari.  Tarsi breves.  Hallux validus.  Tarsus halluxque æquales, plantæ planæ, latæ.  Cauda brevis,æqualis.  Alæ rotundatæ.  ...  I shall therefore merely observe, that while this genus seems to open a passage to the next family of Paradiseidæ, it gives a typical representation of that group among the Meliphagidæ.  ...  PTILORIS paradiseus.  ...  In this sex [♂] the nostrils are completely hid by the frontal feathers, which entirely cover the membrane." (Swainson 1825); "Ptiloris Swainson, 1825, Zool. Journ., 1 (4), p. 479. Type, by monotypy, Ptiloris paradiseus Swainson." (Mayr in Peters 1962, XV, 187). Cracraft 1992, recognised five diagnosably distinct species in this genus.   Var. Ptilorbis, Ptilorhis, Ptilorhys.

paradisea / paradiseus / paradisi
Med. L. paradiseus  of paradise, paradisean, ethereal  < Late L. paradisus  paradise  < Gr. παραδεισος paradeisos  paradise, garden, pleasure ground (of the Persian kings)  < Old Persian pairi-daēza  walled garden.
● "44. PSITTACUS.  ...  paradisi.  28. P. brachyurus luteus, angulo abdominis rectricibusque basi rubris.  Psittacus paradisi ex cuba. Catesb. car. I. p. 10. t. 10.  Habitat in America." (Linnaeus 1758) (nom. dub.: ?syn. Amazona leucocephalus (leucistic)).
● ex “Coucou verd hupé de Siam” of Brisson 1760 (Dicrurus).
● ex “Tangara du Brésil” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 127, fig. 2 (subsp. Tangara chilensis).
● "48. CORVUS.  ...  paradisi.  11. C. albo nigroque varius, cauda cuneiformi, remigibus intermediis longissimis, capite nigro cristato:  Manucodiota cristata ex albo nigroque variata. Raj. av. 195. t. 2. f. 13.  Avis paradisi. Seb. mus. I. p. 85. t. 52. f. 3. & t. 30. f. 5.  Pica orientalis, cauda duabus pennis longissimis. Edw. av. 113. t. 113.  Habitat in India." (Linnaeus 1758) (Terpsiphone).
● "58. UPUPA.  ...  paradisea.  2. U. rectricibus duabus longissimis.  Avis paradisiaca Manucodiata cristata orientalis. Seb. mus. I. p. 40. t. 30. f. 5.  Habitat in Asia." (Linnaeus 1758) (?syn. Terpsiphone paradisi).
● "97. EMBERIZA.  ...  paradisæa.  12. E. fusca, pectore rubro, rectricibus duabus longioribus acuminatis, intermediis duabus longissimis.  Passer indicus. Aldr. orn. l. 15. c. 23. Will. orn. 184. t. 45.  Passer psittacus indicus, cauda longa. Pet. gaz. . . t. 55. f. 1.  Passer pectore rubro, cauda longissima. Edw. av. 86. t. 86.  Habitat in Africa.  Nigra est sed cervice & pectore coccineo. Deponit quotannis longas caudæ pennas, uti Pavo." (Linnaeus 1758) (Vidua).
● "60. TROCHILUS.  ...  paradiseus.  1. T. curvirostris ruber, alis cæruleis, capite cristato, rectricibus duabus longissimis.  Mellivora avis cristata cum duobus pennis longis in cauda. Seb. mus. I. p. 97. t. 61. f. 4.  Habitat in Mexico." (Linnaeus 1758) (unident.; Bonaparte 1850, hesitantly linked this name with Topaza pella).