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| 03-JAN-2009 | Copyright © 2009 Robert |
Scientific name: Diphyllodes respublica (Bonaparte, 1850).
Distribution: Islands of Waigeu and Batanta to the north & west of New Guinea. It is a shy bird of the forests.
Click here to see John Gould's hand-colored lithographed of Wilson’s Bird of Paradise in 'The Birds of New Guinea’, published by Henry Sotheran & Co., 1875-88.
Read this interesting chapter from Alfred Russel Wallace's The Malay Archipelago
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