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I GOT to-day from Ternate the skins (♂ and ♀) of a Bird of Paradise from Waigeou, which came through natives into the hands of Mr. van Mounhenbroek there, who recognised it to be an undescribed species. He proposes to call it Diphyllodes Guilhelmi i:i., because no Bird of Paradise has yet been named after the King of the Netherlands, under whose sceptre the greater part of the region stands, where Birds of Paradise occur. It is known that two species from Australia are named respectively after the Queen of Great Britain and the Prince Consort, that three are named after naturalists, and that the others have names according to their external features. This new bird is highly interesting, because it stands in a conspicuous way between Diphyllodes speciosa and Cicinnurus regius, but more allied to the former, and at the same time bearing some characters of Diphyllodes respublica; therefore linking these species together in a similar way as it does Paradisea raggiana (one of D'Alberti's discoveries) with P. sanguinea, apoda and minor. I shall soon send (in the name of Mr. van M.) the description of the new bird to the Zoological Society of London, and intend to publish a coloured figure as soon as possible. But knowing the lively interest English ornithologists take in new discoveries in the group of the Paradiscidæ, I thought it advisable to give a short notice in your journal beforehand.
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MEYER, A. A New Bird of Paradise from the Island of Waigeou, near New Guinea. Nature 11, 208 (1875). https://doi.org/10.1038/011208b0
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