Victoria's Riflebird

SCI Name:  Ptiloris victoriae
Protonym:  Ptiloris Victoriae Proc.Zool.Soc.London(1849) (1849), Pt17 no.196 p.111 pl.12
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Paradisaeidae / Ptiloris
Taxonomy Code:  vicrif1
Type Locality:  Barnard Island, North Queensland.
Author:  Gould
Publish Year:  1850
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

Ptiloris
(syn. Lophorina Ϯ Paradise Riflebird L. paradisea) Gr. πτιλον ptilon  feather; ῥις rhis, ῥινος rhinos  nostrils; "Genus. PTILORIS. Mihi.  Tribe Tenuirostres.*  Family. Meliphagidæ.  Vigors. Mihi.   GENERIC CHARACTERS.   Rostrum longissimum, compressum, falciforme.  Nares basales, plumosi, paertura lineari.  Tarsi breves.  Hallux validus.  Tarsus halluxque æquales, plantæ planæ, latæ.  Cauda brevis,æqualis.  Alæ rotundatæ.  ...  I shall therefore merely observe, that while this genus seems to open a passage to the next family of Paradiseidæ, it gives a typical representation of that group among the Meliphagidæ.  ...  PTILORIS paradiseus.  ...  In this sex [♂] the nostrils are completely hid by the frontal feathers, which entirely cover the membrane." (Swainson 1825); "Ptiloris Swainson, 1825, Zool. Journ., 1 (4), p. 479. Type, by monotypy, Ptiloris paradiseus Swainson." (Mayr in Peters 1962, XV, 187). Cracraft 1992, recognised five diagnosably distinct species in this genus.   Var. Ptilorbis, Ptilorhis, Ptilorhys.

victoria / victoriae
● Victoria, Australia (named after Alexandrina Victoria Queen of Great Britain) (syn. Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris, syn. Alcedo azurea, subsp. Climacteris picumnus, syn. Colluricincla harmonica, syn. Coracina papuensis robusta, syn. Dasyornis brachypterus, syn. Drymodes brunneopygia, syn. Eurostopodus mystacalis, syn. Halobaena caerulea, syn. Ixobrychus minutus novaezelandiae, syn. Malurus splendens melanotus, subsp. Menura novaehollandiae, syn. Microeca fascinans, syn. Ninox strenua, syn. Oxyura australis, syn. Platycercus elegans, syn. Podargus strigoides, syn. Rhipidura albiscapa alisteri, subsp. Synoicus chinensis).
● Mt. Victoria (= Nat Ma Taung), Chin Hills, Burma (subsp. Aethopyga nipalensis, syn. Certhia manipurensis, subsp. Pellorneum ruficeps, subsp. Pyrrhula nipalensis, Sitta, syn. Siva strigula yunnanensis, subsp. Trochalopteron austeni).
● Alexandrina Victoria Queen of Great Britain and Empress of India (1819-1901; reigned 1837-1901) (syn. Ardea alba, Goura, Lophorina).
● Lake Victoria (= Victoria Nyanza), East Africa (syn. Cisticola chiniana fischeri, Ploceus).
● Victoria Adelaide Mary Louise Crown-Princess of Germany and Prussia (1840-1901), eldest child of Queen Victoria, and wife to Friedrich Wilhelm Crown-Prince of Germany and Prussia (Lamprolia).
● Marie Anne Victoire Mulsant née Jacquetton (1777-1854) mother of French ornithologist Martial Mulsant (Lesbia).
● Sierra La Victoria, southern Baja California, Mexico (subsp. Vireo gilvus).