Carola's Parotia

SCI Name:  Parotia carolae
Protonym:  Parotia carolae Bull.Br.Orn.Club 4 p.6
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Paradisaeidae / Parotia
Taxonomy Code:  carpar1
Type Locality:  Amberno River [but apparently from the Weyland Mts.].
Author:  Meyer, AB
Publish Year:  1894
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

PAROTIA
(Paradisaeidae; Ϯ Western Parotia P. sefilata) Gr. παρωτις parōtis  curl of hair by the ear  < παρ par  near; ους ous, ωτος ōtos  ear; from behind the eyes of the male Western Parotia or Six-wired Bird of Paradise spring racquet-tipped head-wires; "Le sifilet. (Paradisea aurea). Noir, sans filets au croupion, mais trois longs partant de chaque oreille, terminés par un disque verd doré." (Cuvier 1798); "86. SIFILET, Parotia.  Paradisea, Linn. Gm. Lath.  Bec garni de plumes courtes jusqu'au-delà du milieu, grêle, comprimé latéralement, tendu, échancré et fléchi à la pointe. — Plumes hypochondriales, longues, larges, décomposées.   Esp. Sifilet, Buff." (Vieillot 1816); "Parotia Vieillot, 1816, Analyse, p. 35. Type, by monotypy, "Sifilet, Buff." = P. sefilata Pennant." (Mayr in Peters 1962, XV, 194). Cracraft 1992, considered that Parotia consisted of ten well-differentiated species.
Var. Parotica (παρ par  near; ωτικος ōtikos  of the ear), Parolia.
Synon. Otostylis.

carola / carolae
● Charlotte Honorine Joséphine Pauline Contessa Primoli di Foglia (1832-1891) daughter of French ornithologist Prince Charles Bonaparte; "Avem pulcherrimam dicamus amatissimae CAROLAE PRIMOLI BONAPARTE, nomine dignae; filiae optimae, sororis, sponsae, matrisque exemplum!" (Bonaparte 1855) (Ducula).
● Carol Beehler (fl. 2007) wife of US ornithologist Dr Bruce M. Beehler (Melipotes).
● Charlotte Crittenden McGregor (b. 1841) mother of US zoologist Richard Crittenden McGregor (subsp. Melozone crissalis).
● Karoline Frederikke Franziska Stephanie Amalia Cecilia Princess of Sweden and Queen Consort of Saxony (1833-1907), known as Carola of Vasa and Saxony, wife of Albrecht King of Saxony (Parotia).

SUBSPECIES

Carola's Parotia (carolae)
SCI Name: Parotia carolae carolae
carola / carolae
● Charlotte Honorine Joséphine Pauline Contessa Primoli di Foglia (1832-1891) daughter of French ornithologist Prince Charles Bonaparte; "Avem pulcherrimam dicamus amatissimae CAROLAE PRIMOLI BONAPARTE, nomine dignae; filiae optimae, sororis, sponsae, matrisque exemplum!" (Bonaparte 1855) (Ducula).
● Carol Beehler (fl. 2007) wife of US ornithologist Dr Bruce M. Beehler (Melipotes).
● Charlotte Crittenden McGregor (b. 1841) mother of US zoologist Richard Crittenden McGregor (subsp. Melozone crissalis).
● Karoline Frederikke Franziska Stephanie Amalia Cecilia Princess of Sweden and Queen Consort of Saxony (1833-1907), known as Carola of Vasa and Saxony, wife of Albrecht King of Saxony (Parotia).

Carola's Parotia (meeki)
SCI Name: Parotia carolae meeki
meeki / meekiana
Albert Stewart Meek (1871-1943) English explorer, collector in New Guinea, Melanesia and Australia (syn. Amaurornis cinerea, subsp. Cacomantis flabelliformis, syn. Caprimulgus macrurus schlegelii, Ceyx, Charmosyna, syn. Coracina papuensis angustifrons, Corvus, subsp. Dicrurus bracteatus, subsp. Edolisoma melas, Erythropitta, subsp. Loriculus aurantiifrons, subsp. Macropygia amboinensis, subsp. Melanocharis versteri, subsp. Melanorectes nigrescens, ‡Microgoura, Micropsitta, syn. Myzomela obscura fumata, Ninox, subsp. Oedistoma pygmaeum, subsp. Pachycephala leucogastra, subsp. Parotia carolae, subsp. Podargus ocellatus, syn. Psittaculirostris desmarestii godmani, Ptiloprora, subsp. Sericornis papuensis, subsp. Syma torotoro, subsp. Symposiachrus browni, subsp. Tyto alba, Zosterops).

Carola's Parotia (chalcothorax)
SCI Name: Parotia carolae chalcothorax
chalcothorax
Gr. χαλκοθωραξ khalkothōrax, χαλκοθωρακος khalkothōrakos  with brazen breastplate  < χαλκος khalkos  bronze; θωραξ thōrax, θωρακος thōrakos  breastplate, cuirass.

Carola's Parotia (clelandiae)
SCI Name: Parotia carolae clelandiae
clelandiae
Original spelling of subspecific name Parotia carolae clelandiorum Gilliard, 1961.

Carola's Parotia (chrysenia)
SCI Name: Parotia carolae chrysenia
chrysenia
Gr. χρυσος khrusos  gold; ηνια ēnia  bridle, rein.