Parotia Parotia lawesii, 1816

Frith, Clifford B. & Frith, Dawn W., 1996, Description of the unique Parotia lawesii x Paradisaea rudolphi hybrid Bird of Paradise (Aves: Passeriformes: Paradisaeidae), Records of the Australian Museum 48 (2), pp. 111-116 : 115

Lawes' Parotia Parotia lawesii x Blue Bird of Paradise Paradisaea rudolphi hybrid-Schodde's Bird of Paradise

While scientific and vernacular names for wild hybrid birds are not entirely desirable or justified and have no fonnal standing in zoological nomenclature, most hybrid birds of paradise have been given one or both ( Iredale, 1950; Fuller, 1979). No scientific name should be established for the above hybrid. We do not suggest a fonnal common name but would, in keeping with tradition, like to see this hybrid at least infonnally known as Schodde's Bird of Paradise to appropriately acknowledge Dr Richard Schodde's discovery, as part of his far more significant systematic work on the Paradisaeidae , expressed in both his numerous publications and the fine and valuable collection of Paradisaeidae in the Australian National Wildlife Collection at the CSIRO in Canberra.