Manucodia Comrii Bird

English Name:  Curl-crested Manucode
Latin Name:  Manucodia comrii
Protonym:  Manucodia comrii Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt3 p.459 pl.42
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Paradisaeidae / Manucodia
Taxonomy Code:  cucman1
Type Locality:  'Huon Gulf'', error for Fergusson Island.
Author:  Sclater, PL
Publish Year:  1876
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

MANUCODIA
(Paradisaeidae; Ϯ Crinkle-collared Manucode M. chalybatus) Contracted form of “Manucodiata,” the name assigned to a group of birds-of-paradise by Brisson 1760, based on Old Javanese Manu ko dewata  birds of the gods; "634. Le Chalybé de la nouvelle Guinée, BUFF. V. p. 236. BRISS. Ornith. o. LINN. Gen. 52. o. Manucodia chalybea, mihi. Blue green Paradise bird LATH. I. p. 482. 7." (Boddaert 1783); "Manucodia Boddaert, 1783, Tabl. enlum., p. 39, no. 634. Type, by monotypy, M. chalybea Boddaert = P. chalybata Pennant. [Masculine, from old Javanese; "manukdewa" — bird of the gods]." (Mayr in Peters 1962, XV, 184).   
Synon. Chalybaeus, Eucorax, Manucorax.
● (syn. Parotia Ϯ Western Parotia P. sefilata) "20  Manucodia Sexpennis, Linn  o.  ([Cloche] 7.    20 Sixfilet, ou Oiseau de Paradis, Buff. . . . .([Cloche] 7." (Meuschen 1787).

comrii
Dr Peter M. Comrie (1832-1882) British naval surgeon, collector (Manucodia).

SUBSPECIES

Curl-crested Manucode (comrii)
Latin Name: Manucodia comrii comrii
comrii
Dr Peter M. Comrie (1832-1882) British naval surgeon, collector (Manucodia).

Curl-crested Manucode (trobriandi)
Latin Name: Manucodia comrii trobriandi
trobriandi
Trobriand Is. (= Kiriwina Is.), Papua New Guinea.