Description

COMMENTS: In the original description, Foerster described male and female but did not designate a type. Hartert (1919: 129) listed the male, collected in the Rawlinson Mountains in December 1905 by Wahnes as the type, thereby designating it the lectotype. Only one other specimen collected before the 1906 publication of the name came to AMNH, paralectotype AMNH 678081, female, collected in the Rawlinson Mountains in December 1905 by Wahnes.

Common Names

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Aves

Order: Passeriformes

Family: Paradisaeidae

Genus: Astrapia

Species: Astrapia rothschildi Foerster, 1906