King-of-Saxony Bird-of-Paradise

SCI Name:  Pteridophora alberti
Protonym:  Pteridophora alberti Bull.Br.Orn.Club 4 p.11
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Paradisaeidae / Pteridophora
Taxonomy Code:  kospar1
Type Locality:  'Mountains on the Amberno River''; tyjje apparently came from the Weyland Mts.
Author:  Meyer, AB
Publish Year:  1894
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

PTERIDOPHORA
(Paradisaeidae; Ϯ King of Saxony's Bird-of-Paradise P. alberti) Gr. πτερις pteris, πτεριδος pteridos  feathery-leaved fern; -φορος -phoros -carrying  < φερω pherō  to carry; "PTERIDOPHORA, gen. nov. Paradiseidarum.  (πτερις = filix, φερειν = ferre.)  Capite utrinque scapo paradoxo, valde elongato, filicis flabelli uniseriati instar transformato, lobis plurimis, corio similibus, munito. Rostro turdino, recto, angusto; alis brevibus, remige primo dimidiam partem secundi superante, tertio, quarto, quinto, sexto longioribus, quarto longissimo: cauda mediocri, æquali: pedibus mediocribus. Statura minore quam in genere Lophorhina.  PTERIDOPHORA ALBERTI, sp. n." (Meyer 1894); "Pteridophora Meyer, 1894, Bull. Brit. Orn. Cl., 4, p. 11. Type, by monotypy, P. alberti Meyer." (Mayr in Peters 1962, XV, 196).

alberti
● Capt. Samuel Albert White (1870-1954) Australian Army, explorer, collector, ornithologist (Laurent Raty in litt.) (subsp. Acanthiza lineata). 
● Revd. Fr. Albert Nagnzaun (1777-1856) Benedictine Abbot of St. Peter's Monastery, Salzburg 1818-1856, theologian, naturalist (Jan van der Brugge in litt.) (syn. Anas platyrhynchos).
● Albert Stewart Meek (1871-1943) English explorer, collector in New Guinea, the Solomons and Australia (subsp. Eudynamys orientalis, subsp. Lewinia pectoralis, syn. Pachycephala simplex sudestensis, subsp. Todiramphus chloris, syn. Zosterops rendovae).
● Franz August Karl Albrecht Emanuel Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Duke of Saxony (1819-1861), commonly known as Prince Albert, Consort to Queen Victoria (Crax, subsp. Lophorina magnifica, Menura).
● Albert I Leopold Clemens Maria Meinrad King of the Belgians (1875-1934; reigned 1909-1934) (Prionops).
● Friedrich August Albrecht Anton Ferdinand King of Saxony (1828-1902; reigned 1873-1902) (Pteridophora).