PARADISEA MINOR, Shaw. 
Lesser Bird of Paradise. 
Manucodiata minoris generis, Clus. Exot. Auctuar. p. 3G1 (1605). 
Smaller Bird of Paradise, Forrest, Voy. to New Guinea, p, 137. 
Le petit oiseau de paradis des lies des Papous, Forrest, Voy. to New Guinea (trad, franq.), p. 156 (1780). 
Sonnini, edit, de Button, Ois. viii. p. 360. 
Paradisea minor papuana, Forst. Zool. Ind. p. 31 (1/81).— -Id. ibid. 2nd ed. p. 20. Vieill. N. D. d Hist. Nat. 
xxx. p. 113 (1819). 
Lesser Bird of Paradise, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. p. 474 (1782).— Leadb. P. Z. S. 1862, p. 153. 
Paradisea apoda, var. /3, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 400 (1788). — Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 194 (1790). Daud. Tr. d Orn. 
ii. p. 270 (1800). 
Le petit Emeraude, Vieill. Ois. Dor. ii. Ois. Par. p. 12, pi. 2 (1802). 
Le grand Oiseau de Paradis Smeraude, femelle, Levaill. Ois. Parad. p. 15, pi. 2 (?) (1806). 
Le petit Oiseau de Paradis emeraude, male, Levaill. op. cit. p. 17, pi. 4 ( ad.). 
Le petit Oiseau de Paradis Emeraude, femelle, Levaill. op. cit. p. 21, pi. 5 ( <3 jun.). 
Paradisea minor, Shaw, Gen. Zool. vii. p. 486 (1809).— Temm. Man. d’Orn. i. p. lv (1820). — Ranz. Elem. di 
Zool. iii. pt. 4, p. 66 (1822). — Stepli. in Shaw’s Gen. Zool. xiv. p. 76 (1826). — Wagl. Syst. Av., 
Paradisea , sp. 2 (1827).— Less. Tr. d’Orn. p. 336 (1831).— J. E. Gray, 111. Ind. Zool. i. pi. 27 (1 832). — 
Less. Ois. Parad. Syn. p. 3, et Hist. Nat. p. 132, pi. 2 ( i ad.), pi. 3 ( ? ), pi. 4 ( <j jun.), pi. 5 ( <? juv.) 
(1835). — Id. Compl. de Buff., Ois. p. 453 (1838). — Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 106 (1849).— 
Gray, Hand-1. B. ii. p. 16, no. 6248 (1870).— Elliot, Mon. Parad. pi. 4 (1873).— Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. 
Gen. vii. p. 781 (1875), viii. p. 402 (1876), ix. p. 191 (1876), x. p. 153 (1877). — Sharpe, Cat. Birds 
Brit. Mus. p. 168 (1877).— D’Alb. Nuov. Guin. p. 582 (1880). — Salvad. Orn. Pap. ii. p. 577 (1881).— 
Eudes-Deslongch, Ann. Mus. d’Hist. Nat. Caen, i. p. 22 (1880). — Musschenbr. Dagboek, pp. 185, 220 
(1883).— Rosenb. Mitth. orn. Ver. Wien, 1885, p. 30. — Guillem. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 651. — D’Hamonv. 
Bull. Soc. Zool. France, xi. pp. 506, 509 (1886). — Salvad. Aggiunte Orn. Papuasia, etc. ii. p. 158 
(1890).— Sharpe, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, iv. p. xiii (1894). — Rothsch. Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vi. p. xlv 
(1897). 
Paradisea papuana, Bechst. Kurze Uebersicht, p. 131 (1811). — Vieill. Enc. Meth. p. 906, pi. 142. fig. 4(1823). — 
Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 322 (1847).— Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 413 (1850). — Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 214 
(1851). — Wall. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (2) xx. p. 415 (1857). — Scl. Journ. Pr. Linn. Soc. ii. p. 163 
(1858). — Gray, Cat. B. New Guin. p. 36 (1859). — Id. P. Z. S. 1859, p. 157. — Wall. Ibis, 1859, p. 111. 
—Id. ibid. 1861, pp. 287-291.— Gray, P. Z. S. 1861, p. 436 — Schl. J. f. O. 1861, p. 385.— Scl. P. Z. S. 
1862, pp. 123, 140, 184, 185. — Wall. t. c. pp. 154-156. — Rosenb. Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. xxv. p. 242 
(1863). — Id. J. f. O. 1864, p. 126. — Finsch, Neu-Guin. p. 173 (1865). — Schl. Mus. P.-B., Coraces, p. 82 
(1867). — Wall. Malay Arch. ii. pp. 394, 419 (1869). — Schl. Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierk. iv. pp. 17, 49 
(1871).— Murie, Ibis, 1873, p. 203. — Bruijn, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 30. — Meyer, t. c. p.469. — Rosenb. 
Reist. naar de Geelvinkb. pp. 17, 56 (1875). — Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vii. pp. 781,899 (1875). — 
Gould, B. New Guinea, i. pis. 28, 29 (1879). — 'Rosenb. Malay. Arch. p. 555 (1879). 
Paradisea smaragdina minor, Dumont, Diet. d’Hist. Nat. xxxvii. p. 504 (1826). — Drap. Diet. Class, xiii. p. 46. 
Paradisea apoda feem., Wagl. Syst. Av., gen. Paradisea, sp. 1 (1827). 
Paradisea papuensis, Less. Man. d’Orn. i. p. 392 (1828). — Voigt, Cuv. Uebers. p. 615 (1831). — S. Mull. 
V erhandl. Land- en Volkenk. pp. 22, 70 (1839-44).— Gray, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 193.— Id. Cat. B. New 
Guin. p. 58 (1859). 
Oiseau de Paradis petit-emeraude, Less. Voy. Coq., Zool. i. pt. 2, pp. 446, 654, 655 (1828). 
Paradisea apoda, Garn. (nec Linn.) Voy. Coq., Zool. i. pt. 2, p. 596 (1828). 
Oiseau de Paradis emeraude, Quoy & Gaim. Voy. Astrol., Zool. i. p. 155 (1830). 
The Lesser Bird of Paradise is, as its name implies, a smaller bird than P. apoda, and it is further 
distinguished by having the mantle of a doll straw-colour and not maroon-brown like the rest of the 
back. The wing-coverts are also more or less straw-coloured. The female differs from the female of 
P. apoda in having the breast white instead of maroon-brown. 
The range of this species appears to he confined to the northern and western portions of New Guinea 
and the island of Mysol. In German New Guinea it is replaced by Paradisea finschi of Meyer, and in the 
island of Johi by P. jobiensis of Rothschild. 
