Blue Bird-of-Paradise

SCI Name:  Paradisaea rudolphi
Protonym:  Paradisornis Rudolphi Zeitsch.ges.Orn. 2 p.385 pl.20
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Paradisaeidae / Paradisaea
Taxonomy Code:  bbopar1
Type Locality:  Hufeisengebirge, southeast New Guinea.
Author:  Finsch & Meyer
Publish Year:  1885
IUCN Status:  Vulnerable

DEFINITIONS

PARADISAEA
(Paradisaeidae; Ϯ Greater Bird-of-Paradise P. apoda) Late L. paradisus  paradise  < Gr. παραδεισος paradeisos  paradise, pleasure ground (of the Persian kings) < Old Persian pairi-daēza  walled garden; Magellan’s sailors were told by Moluccan natives that the exotic birds-of-paradise came from heaven, being called ‘birds of god’ (see apoda); "51. PARADISÆA.  Rostrum basi plumis tomentosis tectum.  Pennæ hypochondriorum longiores." (Linnaeus 1758); "Paradisaea Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, p. 110. Type, by subsequent designation (Gray, 1840, p. 39), P. apoda Linnaeus." (Mayr in Peters 1962, XV, 199). Linnaeus's Paradisaea comprised two species (P. apoda, P. regia) (Cracraft 1992, recognised fourteen phylogenetic species herein). 
Var. Paradisea, Paradisia.
Synon. Manucodiata, Samalia, Trichoparadisea, Uranornis.

paradisaea / paradisaeus
Med. L. paradiseus  of paradise, paradisean, ethereal  < Late L. paradisus  paradise.

rudolfi / rudolphi
● Rudolf Kmunke (1866-1918) Austrian architect, big-game hunter, explorer in Greenland 1909, Kenya-Uganda 1911-1912, and Morocco 1913 (syn. Cercomela sordida ernesti).
● Rudolf Grauer (1871-1927) Austrian ornithologist, collector in tropical Africa 1904-1911 (syn. Chlorophoneus multicolor graueri, syn. Euschistospiza cinereovinacea graueri).
● Dr Rudolf Thielemann (1872-1934) German ophthalmologist, collector (Martin Schneider in litt.) (syn. Falco peregrinus pealei).
● Archduke Rudolf Franz Karl Joseph (1858-1889) Crown-Prince of Austria-Hungary (Ninox, Paradisornis).

SUBSPECIES

Blue Bird-of-Paradise (rudolphi)
SCI Name: Paradisaea rudolphi rudolphi
rudolfi / rudolphi
● Rudolf Kmunke (1866-1918) Austrian architect, big-game hunter, explorer in Greenland 1909, Kenya-Uganda 1911-1912, and Morocco 1913 (syn. Cercomela sordida ernesti).
● Rudolf Grauer (1871-1927) Austrian ornithologist, collector in tropical Africa 1904-1911 (syn. Chlorophoneus multicolor graueri, syn. Euschistospiza cinereovinacea graueri).
● Dr Rudolf Thielemann (1872-1934) German ophthalmologist, collector (Martin Schneider in litt.) (syn. Falco peregrinus pealei).
● Archduke Rudolf Franz Karl Joseph (1858-1889) Crown-Prince of Austria-Hungary (Ninox, Paradisornis).

Blue Bird-of-Paradise (margaritae)
SCI Name: Paradisaea rudolphi margaritae
margaritae
● Margarita Nikandrovna Zilova (fl. 1897) common-law wife of Russian ornithologist Konstantin Davydof (Laurent Raty in litt.) (syn. Alectoris chukar sinaica).
● Margaret Kernochan Pulitzer née Leech (1893-1974) US author, historian, wife of publisher and sponsor Ralph Pulitzer (Batis).
● Margarethe Koenig née Westphal (1865-1943) German field-naturalist, collector, wife of zoologist Prof. A. Koenig (subsp. Chersophilus duponti).
● Gabrielle Maud Vassal née Candler (fl. 1919) collector in tropical China and Indochina (subsp. Cissa chinensis).
● Subsequent spelling by author of subspecific name Coeligena torquata margaretae Zimmer, 1948 (syn. Coeligena torquata margaretae).
● Margaret Hall Holt née Lander (b. 1894) wife of US ornithologist Ernest G. Holt (Conirostrum).
● Isla Margarita, Nueva Esparta, Venezuela (subsp. Crypturellus erythropus, subsp. Megascops choliba, subsp. Phalaenopsis brasiliana, subsp. Rallus longirostris, subsp. Xiphorhynchus susurrans).
● Hon. Margaret Mary Fraser (1881-1973) sister of explorer Simon Fraser 14th Lord Lovat (syn. Estrilda paludicola ochrogaster).
● Amelia ‘Daisy’ Woolworth Smith née Smith (b. 1858) US preparator, collector in the Neotropics, wife of naturalist Herbert Huntington Smith (Spanish name margarita for the daisy flower) (subsp. Lampornis amethystinus, subsp. Sporathraupis cyanocephala, subsp. Tangara flava).
● Margaret Fitzell Gilliard née Tifft (1918-2008) wife of US ornithologist E. Thomas Gilliard (subsp. Paradisornis rudolphi).
● Isla Santa Margarita, Baja California, Mexico (subsp. Polioptila californica).
● Anne Louise Marguerite Dorst née Larpent (fl. 1956) wife of French ornithologist Jean Dorst (subsp. Psilopsiagon aurifrons).
● Marguerite Delacour (1860-1954) mother of French ornithologist Jean Delacour (Psittiparus).
● Margaret Boardman Conover (b. 1888) sister of US ornithologist Henry Boardman Conover (subsp. Zentrygon frenata).