Parotia duivenbodei Rothschild

Parotia duivenbodei Rothschild, 1900b: 100 (Dutch New Guinea).

Now considered a hybrid Parotia sefilata X Lophorina superba . See Rothschild, 1911: 355, pl. 5; Hartert, 1919: 128; Stresemann, 1930: 12; Mayr, 1962d: 204; Gilliard, 1969: 64–65; Fuller, 1995: 80–85; and Frith and Beehler, 1998: 512– 513, pl. 14 (7).

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 679117, [adult male], collecting locality unknown, purchased from van Renesse van Duivenbode. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Rothschild had a single specimen. While a specimen of this form in MNHN was said to come from inland of Yaour (Waar) Island, this was not the case with Rothschild’s specimen. Van Renesse van Duivenbode had many bases of operation along the north coast of New Guinea from which he regularly collected not only natural history items but any products of the country that were marketable.