EPIMACHUS SPECIOSUS ( Bodd . ). 
Great Sickle-billed Bird of Paradise. 
De groole zwarte Paradys-vogel, Valentyn, Gesch. Amboina etc. p. 311 (1726). 
Le Promerops Irun de la Nouvette Gu'mte, Sonnerat, Voy. Nouv. Gain. p. 164, pi. 100 (1776). 
Le Grand Promerops de la Nouvelle Gurnee, Sonn. t. c. p. 166, pi. 101 (1776). — Daubent. PI. Enl. vi. pi. 639. 
Le Grand Oiseau de Paradis noir, Forster in Forrest Voy. Madag. et Nouv. Guin. p. 158 (1780, ex Valentyn). 
Paradisea nigra major, Forster, Zool. Ind. p. 34 (1/81, ex Valentyn). 
Blade Paradise Bird, Penn. Ind. Zool. 2nd ed. p. 22 (1790, ex Valentyn). 
New Guinea Grand Promerops, Lath. Gen. Syn. i. pt. 2, p. 694 (1782, ex Sonnerat). 
Grand Promerops, Lath. Gen. Syn. p. 695 (1782, ex Sonnerat). 
Le Promerops de la Nouvelle Gurnee, Daubent. PI. Enl. vi. pi. 638 ( 2 )• 
Le Promerops cl ventre rage, Month. Hist. Nat. Ois. vi. p. 471 (1/83). 
Le Grand Promerops a paremens frisSs, Month. Hist. Nat. Ois. vi. p. 472 (1/83). 
Upupa striata, Bodd. Tabl. PI. Enl. p. 39 (1783). 
Upupa speciosa, Bodd. t. c. p. 39. 
Merops brunneus, Scop. Del. Flor. et Faun. Insubr. ii. p. 90 (1786, ex Sonnerat). 
Merops maximus, Scop. op. cit. p. 90 (1786, ex Sonnerat). 
Upupa fusca, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 468 (1788, ex Sonnerat). 
Upupa magna, Gmelin, tom. cit. p. 468 (1788, ex Sonnerat). — llliger, Prodr. p. 211 (1811). 
Upupa papuensis, Latham, Ind. Orn. i. p. 279 (1790). 
Upupa superba, Latham, tom. cit. p. 279 (1790). 
Le Promerops rage, Vieill. Ois. Dor. i. Hist. Nat. Promerops, p. 18, pi. 7 (1802). 
Le Grand Promerops, Vieill. op. cit. p. 18, pi. 8 (1802). 
Le Promerops cl large par ure, Levaill. Hist. Nat. Promerops et Guepiers, pis. 13, 14, 15 (1806). 
Paradisea nigra (nec Gm.), Shaw, Gen. Zool. vii. pt. 2, p. 488 (1809, ex Pennant). 
Promerops striatus, Shaw, op. cit. viii. pt. 1, p. 144 (1811). 
Promerops superbus, Shaw, op. cit. viii. pt. 1, p. 145 (1811). 
Falcinellus magnus, Vieill. Analyse, p. 4 7 (1816). 
Epiniachus magnus, Cuvier, Regne An. i. p. 400 (1817). — Bp. Consp. i. p. 411 (1850). — Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. 
p. 215 (1851).— Reichenb. Handb. spec. Orn., Scansorise, p. 326, tab. 608. figs. 4481-82 (1853). — 
Wallace, Ibis, 1861, p. 287.— Id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, pp. 154, 157, 160. — Finsch, Neu-Guinea, 
p. 165 (1865).— Wall. Malay Arch. ii. p, 414, cum fig. pp. 415, 419 (1869). — Ward, Proc. Zool. Soc. 
1873, p. 743. — Rosenb. Reist. naar Geelvinkb. pp. 17, 101 (1875). — Cory, Beautiful & Cui'ious Birds, 
pt. v. (1S83). 
Falcinellus fuscus, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. xxviii. p. 164 (1819). 
Falcinellus superbus, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. xxviii. p. 166, pi. M. 32, fig. 3 (1819). 
Epiniachus superbus, Temm. Man. i. p. lxxxvi (1820). — Wagler, Syst. Av. Epiniachus, sp. 1 (1827).— Less. Traite, 
p. 321, pi. 73. fig. 1 (1831).- — Temm. PI. Col. Tabl. Meth.p. 72 (1840). — Rosenb. J. f. O. 1864, p. 123. 
Cinnamolegus papuanus, Less. Hist. Nat. Ois. Parad. Syn. p. 32, Hist. Nat. p. 233, pis. 39, 40 (1835). 
Epimachus speciosus, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 94 (1848). — Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Coraces, p. 94 (1867). — Id. N. T. D. 
iv. pp. 17, 49, 50 (1871).— Elliot, Monogr. Parad. pi. 19 (1873). — Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov, 
vii. p. 785 (1875), ix. p. 190 (1876), x. p. 156 (1877). — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. iii. p. 162 
(1877). — Gould, B. New Guinea, i. pi. 9 (1878).- — Rosenb. Malay. Arch. p. 552 (1879). — D’Albertis, 
Nuova Guinea, p. 582 (1880).— Salvad. Orn. Papuasia, etc. ii. p. 541 (1881).— Cory, Beautiful & 
Curious Birds, pt. v., text (1883). — Guillem. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 648. — D’Hamonv. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 
xi. p. 509 (1886). — Salvad. Agg. Orn. Papuasia, ii. p. 152 (1890). 
Epimachus maximus, Sclater, Journ. Proc. Linn. Soc. ii. p. 163 (1858). — Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858, p. 1 90. — 
Id. Cat. B. New Guinea, pp. 21, 55 (1859). — Id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1861, p. 433. — Id. Hand-1. B. i. 
p. 105, no. 1274 (1869).— D’Albert. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 558.— Sclater, tom. cit. p. 697. — 
Beccari, Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov, vii. p. 710 (1875). — Musschenbr. Dagboek, pp. 201, 231 (1883). 
Rosenb. MT. orn. Ver. Wien, 1885, p. 53. 
Paradisea nigra, Schlegel, J. f. O. 1861, p. 386. 
The above elaborately detailed synonymy has been chiefly copied from the ‘ Ornitologia della Papuasia ’ of 
Count Salvadori, who has worked out the literary history of the species with his usual exhaustive zeal. 
