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EPIMACHUS SPECIOSUS (BoM).
Great Sickle-billcd Bird of J'aradise.
De (jrootc ztmrte Pimuhjs-voi/el, Valeiityii, Gescli. Amlioina ctc. ]i. :n 1 (1720).
Le Promerofs Irun de la Nouvelle GubiCe, Soniierat, \'oy. Nouv. Guiii. p. Ui4, pi. 100 (1770),
/.<• Grand Promerofs tie la Nouvelle Gui,lie, Sonn. t. c. jv 10(i, ¡,1. 101 (17711).—Daulici.t. IM. lOiil. vi. pl. 0:l!).
Le Grand Oiseau de Paradis mir, Forster in Furrest Voy. Maclag. ot Nouv, Guiii. ji. I.IS (1780, ex \'alcnlyi.).
Paradism tngra major, Forster, Zool. Ind. p. 34 (1781, e\- Viilciityii).
Blacii Paradise Bird, Pcnn. Ind. Zool, Sud cd, p, 22 (17ÌI0, ex A'alentyn).
New Guinea Grami Promercps, Lath. Gen. Syn. i. pt. 2, p. 094 (1782, ex Sonnei-ot),
Grand Promerops, Lath. Gen. Syn. p. 095 (1782, ex Sonncrat).
Le Promerops de la Nouvelle Guinée, Daubent. PL Eni. vi. pL liliS ( s ).
Le Promerops à ventre raijè, Montb. Ilist. Nat, Ois. vi. p, 471 (1783).
Lj' Grand Promerops à parem'ns frisés, Montb. Ilist, Nat, Ois. vi. p. 472 (1783),
Upupa striata, Bodd, TabL l'I, Eni, p, 39 (178.'ì).
Upupa speciosa, Bodd. t. c. p. 39.
Merops hrunneus, Scop. Del. Fior, et Faun. Insubr. ii. p. 90 (1780, ex Sonnerat).
Mercps maximus, Scop. op, cit, p, 90 (178fi, ex Sonnerat),
Upupa fusca, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 408 (178S, ex Sonnerat).
Upupa magna, Gmehn, toni, cit. p, 408 (1788, ex Sonnerat),—llhger, Prodr. p. 211 (1811),
Upupa papnensis, Latham, Lid. Gru, i. p, 279 (1790).
Upupa superba, Latham, torn. cit. p. 279 (1790).
i f Promerops rayé, Vieill. Ois. Dor. i. Ilist. Nat. Promerops, p. 18, pl. 7 (1802),
Le Grand Promerops, Vieill. op. cit. p. 18, pl. 8 (1802).
Le Promerops à large parure, Levaill. Ilist. Nat, Promeroiis et Guêpiers, pis. 13, M, l.T (1800).
Paradisea nigra (nec Gm.), Shaw, Gen, Zool. vii. pt. 2, p. 488 (1809, ex Pennant),
Promerops slriatus, Shaw, op. cit. viii. pt. 1, p. 144 (1811).
Promerops superlus, Shaw, op. cit. vili. pt. 1, p. 145 (1811).
Falcinellus magnus, Vieill. Analyse, p. 47 (ISKi).
Epimachus magnus, Cuvicr, Règne An. i. p. 4 00 (1817).—Bp. Consp, i, p, 4 11 (1850).—Cab. Mns. Hein. Th. i.
p. 21S (1851).—Reiehcnb. Ilandb. spcc. Orn., Seansorioe, p. 320, tab. 008. figs. 4481-82 (1853) —
Wallace, Ibis, 1801, p. 287.—Id. Troc. Zool. Soc. 1804, pp, 154, 157, 100,—Finsch, Ncu-Gninea,
p. 105 (1805).—Wall. Malay Arch. ii. p. 414, cum fig. pp. 415, 4 19 (1809).—Ward, Proc. Zool. Soc.
1873, p. 743,—Rosenb. Reist, naar Geclvinkb. pp, 17, 101 (1875).—Cory, Beautiful & Curious Birds,
pt. T. (188.3).
Falcinellusfuscus, Vieill. Nouv. Diet, d'llist. Nat. xxviii. p. 104 (1819).
Falcinellus superhis, Vieill. Nouv. Diet, d'llist. Nat. xxviii. p, 10(1, pi. M. 32, fig. 3 (1819).
Epimachus superhis, Temm. Man. i. p. Ixxxvi (1820).—Wagler, Syst. Av. Epimachus, sp. 1 (1827).—Less. Traité,
p. 321, pi. 73. fig. 1 (1831).—Temm. PI. Col. Tabi. Mc'th.p, 72 (1840),—Rosenb, J. f, O, 1804, p. 123,
Cinnamoleguspapuanus. Less. Hist, Nat. Ois. Parad. Syn. p, 32, Ilist, Nat, p. 233, pis. 39, 40 (1835),
Epimachus speciosus,Gva.y, Gen. B. ii. p. 94 (1848).—Sehl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Coraces, p. 94 (1807).—Id. N. T. D.
iv. pp. 17, 49, 50 (1871).—Elliot, Monogr. Parad. pi. 19 (1873).—Salvad. Ami. Mus. Civic. Gcnov.
vii. p. 785 (1875), ix. p. 190 (1870), X. p. 150 (1877).—Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. iii. p. 1(12
(1877).—Gould, B. New Guinea, i. pi. 9 (1878).—Rosenb. Malay. Arch. p. 652 (1879).—D'Albertis,
Nuova Guinea, p. 582 (1880).—Salvad. Orn. Papuasia, etc. ii. p. 541 (1881).—Cory, Beautiful &
Curious Birds, pt.v., text (1883).—Guilleni. P. Z. S. 1885, p. C48.—DTIamonv. Bull. Soc. Zool. France,
xi. p. 509 (1880).—Salvad. Agg. Orn. Papuasia, ii. p. 152 (1890).
Epimachus maxitnvs, Sclater, Journ. Proc. Linu. Soc. ii. p. 163 (1858).—Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858, p. 190.
Id. Cat, B, New Guinea, pp. 21, 55 (1859).—Id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 18C1, p. 433.—Id. IIand-1. B. i.
p. 105, no. 1274 (1809).—D'Albert. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 558.—Sclater, torn. cit. p. 097.—
Beccari, Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. vii. p. 710 (1875).-Mussehenbr. Dagboek, pp. 201, 231 (1883).—
Rosenb. MT. orn. Ver. Wien, 1885, p. 53.
Paradisea nigra, Schlegel, J. f. O. 1801, p. 380.
THE above elaborately (Ictiilied synonymy ha.s been cliiefly copicd from the ' Ornitologia della Pa|)nasia ' of
Count Salvador), ivlio lias norked out the literary history of the specics wiih liis usual exhaustive zeal.
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