Paradisaea Decora Bird

English Name:  Goldie's Bird-of-Paradise
Latin Name:  Paradisaea decora
Protonym:  Paradisea decora Ibis p.131
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Paradisaeidae / Paradisaea
Taxonomy Code:  gbopar1
Type Locality:  Fergusson Island.
Author:  Salvin & Godman
Publish Year:  1883
IUCN Status:  Vulnerable

DEFINITIONS

PARADISAEA
(Paradisaeidae; Ϯ Greater Bird-of-Paradise P. apoda) Late L. paradisus  paradise  < Gr. παραδεισος paradeisos  paradise, pleasure ground (of the Persian kings) < Old Persian pairi-daēza  walled garden; Magellan’s sailors were told by Moluccan natives that the exotic birds-of-paradise came from heaven, being called ‘birds of god’ (see apoda); "51. PARADISÆA.  Rostrum basi plumis tomentosis tectum.  Pennæ hypochondriorum longiores." (Linnaeus 1758); "Paradisaea Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, p. 110. Type, by subsequent designation (Gray, 1840, p. 39), P. apoda Linnaeus." (Mayr in Peters 1962, XV, 199). Linnaeus's Paradisaea comprised two species (P. apoda, P. regia) (Cracraft 1992, recognised fourteen phylogenetic species herein). 
Var. Paradisea, Paradisia.
Synon. Manucodiata, Samalia, Trichoparadisea, Uranornis.

paradisaea / paradisaeus
Med. L. paradiseus  of paradise, paradisean, ethereal  < Late L. paradisus  paradise.

decora
L. decorus  beautiful  < decor, decoris  grace, beauty  < decet  it is seemly.