Blood's bird-of-paradise

Blood's bird-of-paradise
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Paradisaeidae
Genus:	Paradisaea
Species:	P. raggiana × P. rudolphi
Synonyms
	Paradisaea bloodi Iredale, 1948;

Blood's bird-of-paradise, also known as Captain Blood's bird-of-paradise, is a bird in the family Paradisaeidae that is a hybrid between a raggiana bird-of-paradise and blue bird-of-paradise. It is named after Captain N.B. Blood who obtained the specimen through his travels in the East.

History

Only one specimen, an adult male, of this hybrid is known. It comes from the Mount Hagen area in Papua New Guinea and is held in the Australian Museum in Sydney.^[2]

Notes

^ Iredale (1948).
^ Frith & Beehler (1998), p.505.

References

Frith, Clifford B. & Beehler, Bruce M. (1998). The Birds of Paradise. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-854853-9.
Iredale, Tom (1948). "A check list of the birds of paradise and bowerbirds". Australian Zoologist. 11: 161–189.

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[1] Iredale (1948).

[2] Frith & Beehler (1998), p.505.

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