Emperor Bird-of-Paradise

SCI Name:  Paradisaea guilielmi
Protonym:  Paradisea Guilielmi J.Orn. 36 p.119
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Paradisaeidae / Paradisaea
Taxonomy Code:  ebopar1
Type Locality:  Kaiser Wilhelm''s Land, restricted to the Sattelberg.
Author:  Cabanis
Publish Year:  1888
IUCN Status:  Near Threatened

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.

guilielmi
Wilhelm II Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia (1859-1941; reigned 1888-1918 (abdicated)) (Paradisaea).