PAROTIA SEXPENNIS {Bodd.). 
Six-plumed Bird of Paradise. 
Le Sifilet de la Nouvelle Guinee, D’Aubent. PI. Enl. pi. 633. 
Le Sifilet, ou Manucode a six filets, Montbeill. Hist. Nat, Ois, iii. p. 198 (1774). — Forst., in Forrest, Voy. Moluq. 
et a la Nouv. Guin. p. 163 (1780). — Id. Ind. Zool. p. 38 (1781). 
L’Oiseau de Paradis d gorge doree, Sonnerat, Voy. Nouv. Guin. p. 158, pi. 97 (1776). 
Paradisea sefilata, Pennant, Faunula Indica, in Forst. Zool. Ind. p. 40 (1781 : ex D’Aubent.). 
Golden-breasted Bird of Paradise, Lath. Gen, Syn. ii. p. 481 (1782), — Id. Gen. Hist. B. iii. p. 194, pi. xlvii. (1822) 
Paradisea sexpennis, Bodd, Tabl. PI. Enl. p. 38 (1783). — Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 322 (1847). — Id. P. Z. S. 1858, 
p. 194. — Id. Cat. B. New Guinea, pp. 36, 59 (1859). — Id. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 436. — Schl. J. f. O. 1861, 
p. 385. — Id. Mus. Pays-Bas, Coraces, p. 92 (1867). — Id. Dierent. p. 173, cum fig. (c. 1870). — Id. Nederl. 
Tijdschr. Dierk. iv. pp. 49, 50 (1871). — Gray, Hand-1. B. ii. p. 16, no. 6253 (1870).— Rosenb. Reist. 
naar Geelvinkb. p. 116 (1875). — Id. Malay. Archip. p. 557 (1879). — Musschenbr. Dagboek, pp. 192, 
225 (1883). — Rosenb. Mitth. oi’n. Ver. Wien, 1885, p. 40. 
Paradisea aurea, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 402 (1788).— Bechst. Kurze Uebers. p, 133 (1811).— Cuv. Regn. Anim. i. 
p. 404 (1817). — Dumotit, Diet. Sc. Nat. xxxvii. p. 511 (1825). — Cuv. Regn. Anim. 2nd ed. i. p. 427 
(1829). — Finsch, Neu-Guinea, p. 173 (1865). 
Paradisea sexsetacea, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 196 (1790). — Daud. Orn. ii. p. 276 (1800). — Shaw, Gen. Zool. vii. 
pt. 2, p. 496, pi. 66 (1809). — Ranz. Elem. Zool. iii. part 4, p. 77, tab. xiii. fig. 2 (1822). — Wagl. Syst. 
Av., Paradisea, sp. 6 (1827). — Less. Man. d’Orn. i. p. 394 (1828). — -Wallace, P. Z. S. 1862, pp. 154, 
157. 
Le Sifilet, Vieill. Ois. Dor. ii. Ois. Parad. p. 18, pi. 6 (1802). — Le Vaill. Ois. Parad. i. pis. 12, 13, & 11 c, d,e,f 
(1806). — Less. Voy. Coq., Zool. i. pt. 2, p. 654 (1828). 
Parotia sexsetacea, Vieill. N. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. xxxi. p. 160 (1819). — Id. Enc. Meth. ii. p. 909, pi. 144. fig. 1 
(1822).— Id. Gal. Ois. i. p. 148, pi. 97 (1825).— Less. Traite d’Orn. p. 337 (1831).— Id. Illustr. Zool. 
pi. iv. (1831). — Id. Ois. Parad., Syn. p. 10, Hist. Nat. p. 172, pis. x., xi. ( <3 ad.), xi. bis ( <J juv.), xii. ( 2 ) 
(1831). — Swains. Class. B. ii. p. 332 (1837). — Less. Compl. de Buff., Ois. p. 462 (1838). — Wall. 
P. Z. S. 1862, pp. 159, 160. — -Rosenb. Nat. Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind. xxv. p. 247 (1863). — Id. J. f. O. 1864, 
p. 131. 
Parotia aurea, Stephens, in Shaw’s Gen. Zool. xiv. p. 75 (1826). — Gray, List Gen. B. p. 39 (1840).— Id. ibid. 2nd ed. 
p. 52 (1841). — Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 414 (1850). — Gray, List of Gen. & Subgen. p. 65 (1855). — Wall. 
Ibis, 1861, p. 287. 
Parotia sexpennis, Scl. Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. p. 163 (1858). — Wall. Malay Archip. ii. pp. 408 (cum fig.), 419 
(1869). — Elliot, Monogr. Parad., Introd. p. xix, pi. 10 (1873). — D’Alb. P. Z. S. 1873, p. 557. — Scl. t. c. 
p. 697. — Beccari, Ann. Mus. Gen. vii. p. 712 (1875). — Salvad. t. c. pp. 782, 899. — Gould, B. New 
Guinea, i. pi. 25 (1875). — Salvad. Ann. Mus. Gen. ix. p. 190 (1876), x. p. 155 (1877). — D’Alb. 
Nuova Guinea, pp. 70, 72, cum tab., & p. 582 (1880). — Salvad. Orn. Papuasia, etc. ii. p. 515 (1881). — 
Guillem. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 647. — D’LIamonv. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, xi. p. 510 (1886). — Salvad. Agg. 
Orn. Papuasia, etc. ii. p. 149 (1890). — Sharpe, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, iv. p. xiii (1894). 
Lophorhina sexpennis, Sundev. Meth. Nat. Av. Disp. Tent. p. 45 (1872). 
Parotia sefilata, Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. iii. p. 177 (1877). — Eudes-Deslongch. Ann. Mus. d’Hist. Nat. Caen, 
p. 35 (1880). 
This is a species of Bird of Paradise which has been known to science for the last hundred and thirty years, 
having been first figured by D’Aubenton in the ‘ Planches Enluminees,’ under the name of “ Le Sifilet.” 
On this French name Pennant founded his Paradisea sefilata, which is really the oldest name of the species ; 
but Count Salvadori, w'ho has given the most complete synonymy of this species, says that he lacks the 
courage to adopt such a word as sefilata, a barbarous Latin translation of the French ‘ Sifilet.’ For th esame 
reason I follow the Count in this respect and adopt Boddaert’s name, which is next in order of date. 
An excellent account of the changes of plumage of this Bird of Paradise is given by Count Salvadori in 
his ‘ Ornitologia della Papuasia.’ A large series of specimens w 7 ere brought from North-western New 
Guinea by Signor D’Albertis and Dr. Beccari, as well as by Mr. Bruijn’s native hunters, and from this series 
Count Salvadori gives the following account of the sequence of plumages undergone by the males. These at 
first resemble the adult female, from which it is impossible to distinguish them, but the frontal plumes 
