Magnificent Bird-of-Paradise

SCI Name:  Cicinnurus magnificus
Protonym:  Paradisea Magnifica IndischeZool. p.40
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Paradisaeidae / Cicinnurus
Taxonomy Code:  mbopar2
Type Locality:  New Guinea, restricted to the Arfak Mountains.
Author:  Forster, JR
Publish Year:  1781
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CICINNURUS
(Paradisaeidae; Ϯ King Bird-of-Paradise C. regia) Gr. κικιννος kikinnos  ringlet, curled lock of hair; ουρα oura  tail; "P[aradisæa]. cirrhis caudalibus filiformibus apice lunato-pennaceis" (Linnaeus 1758); "88. MANUCODE, Cicinnurus.  Paradisea, Lin. Gm. Lath.  Bec garni à la base de petites plumes dirigées en avant, grêle, convexe en dessus, un peu comprimé par les côtés, finement entaillé et fléchi vers le bout. — Plumes hypochondriales, larges, longées, tronquées.   Esp. Manucode, Buff.  ....  Cicinnurus  [κικιννος, cincinnus,  ουρα, cauda]." (Vieillot 1816); "Cicinnurus Vieillot, 1816, Analyse, p. 35. Type, by monotypy, "Manucode, Buff." = Paradisaea regia Linnaeus." (Mayr in Peters, 1962, XV, p. 197). Cracraft 1992, tentatively differentiated four species in Cicinnurus sens. str.
Var. Circinurus, Cicinurus, Cincinnurus.
Synon. Cricocercus, Diphyllodes, Manucodiata, Manucodus, Schlegelia.

magnificus
L. magnificus  splendid, magnificent  < magnus  great; facere  to make.
● ex “Magnifique” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 631 (Cicinnurus).

SUBSPECIES

Magnificent Bird-of-Paradise (magnificus)
SCI Name: Cicinnurus magnificus magnificus
magnificus
L. magnificus  splendid, magnificent  < magnus  great; facere  to make.
● ex “Magnifique” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 631 (Cicinnurus).

Magnificent Bird-of-Paradise (chrysopterus)
SCI Name: Cicinnurus magnificus chrysopterus
chrysopterus
Gr. χρυσοπτερος khrusopteros  golden-winged  < χρυσος khrusos  gold; -πτερος -pteros  -winged  < πτερον pteron  wing.
● ex “Golden-winged Parrakeet” of Edwards 1760, and “Psittacus alis deauratis” of Brisson 1760 (Brotogeris).
● ex “Tordo negro cobijas amarillas” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 67 (syn. Chrysomus thilius petersii).

Magnificent Bird-of-Paradise (hunsteini)
SCI Name: Cicinnurus magnificus hunsteini
hunsteini
● Carl Hunstein (1843-1888) German colonial administrator in New Guinea 1885-1888 (subsp. Cicinnurus magnificus, Lonchura,  subsp. Phonygammus keraudrenii).
● Hunsteinspitze, Sepik Mts., New Guinea (subsp. Pachycephalopsis poliosoma).