LOPHORHINA SUPERBA (Penn.). 
Superb Bird of Paradise. 
Le Mamtcode noir de la Nouvelle GuinSe, dit le 'Superbe, Month. Hist. Nat. Ois. Hi. p. 197 (1774).— Forster, Zool. 
Ind. p. 38 (1781). 
Ois'eau de Paradis de la Nouvelle Quince, dit le Superbe, D’Aubent. PI. Eul. iii. pi. 632. 
L’ Oiseau de Paradis d gorge violette, surnomme le Superbe, Sonn. Voy. Nouv. Gum. p. 157, pi. 96 (1776). 
Paradisea superba, Penn. Faunula Ind. in Forst. Ind. Zool. p. 4 0 (1781). — Scop. Del. Flor. et Faun. Insubr. ii. 
p. 88 (1786). — Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 402 (1788). — Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 196 (1790). — Shaw, Gen. 
Zool. vii. pt. 2, p. 494, pis. 63, 64, 65 (1809). — Id. & Nodder, Nat. Misc. xxvi. pi. 1021. — Cuvier, 
Regne Anim. i. p. 404 (1817). — Ranz. Elem. Zool. iii. part 4, p. 72, tav. xiii. fig. 1 (1822). — Dumont, 
Diet. Sci. Nat. xxxvii. p. 510 (1825). — Wagler, Syst. Av., Paradisea, p. 102, sp. 5 (1827). — Less. 
Alan. d’Orn. i. p. 394 (1828). — Drap. Diet. Class, xiii. p. 47 (1829). — Cuvier, Regne Anim. i. p. 42S 
(1829). — Wallace, Ibis, 1859, p. 111. — Id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1862, p. 154. — Finsch, Neu-Guinea, p. 173 
(1865).- — Rosenb. Reist. naar Geelvinkb. p. 116 (1873). 
Superb Paradise Bird, Lath. Syn. Av. ii. p. 479 (1782). — Id. Gen. Hist. Birds, iii. p. 191 (1822). 
Paradisea atra, Bodd. Tabl. PL Enl. p. 38 (1783). — Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 322 (1847). — Id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858 
p. 194.— Id. Cat. B. New Guinea, pp. 36, 59 (1859). — Id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1861, p. 436. — Schl. J. f. O. 
1861, p. 385. — Id. Dierent. p. 173 (c. 1870). — Rosenb. Malay. Arch. p. 558 (1879). — Musschenbr. 
Dagboek, pp. 193, 226 (1883). — Rosenb. Mitth. orn. Ver. Wien, 1885, p. 40. 
Paradisea fuscata, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 196 (1790). 
Le Superbe, Vieill. Ois. Dor. ii. Ois. Parad, pi. vii. (1802). — Le Vaill. Ois. Parad. i. pis. 14, 15 (1806). — Less. 
Voy. Coquille, Zool. i. pt. 2, p. 654 (1828). 
Lophorhina superba, Vieill. Analyse, p. 35 (1816). — Id. Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. xviii. p. 185 (1817). — Id. Enc. 
Metli. p. 910, pi. 143. fig. 4 (1823). — Id. Gal. Ois. i. p. 149, pi. xcviii. (1825). — Steph. Gen. Zool. xiv. 
p. 76 (1826). — Less. Traite, p. 337 (1831). — Id. Ois. Parad. Syn. p. 12. — Id. Hist. Nat. p. 179, pis. xiii., 
xiv. (1835).— Less. Compl. Buff. Ois. p. 463 (1838). — Wall. Ibis, 1861, p. 287. — Id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 
1862, pp. 159, 160.— Rosenb. Nat. Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind. xxv. p. 131 (1863). — Id. J. f. O. 1864, 
p. 247. — Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov, ix. p. 190 (1876), x. p. 155 (1877). — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. 
iii. p. 179 (1877). — Gould, Birds of New Guinea, i. pi. 18 (1878). — Yiallane, Ann. Sci. Nat. (6) vii. 
art. 13, pis. x., xi. (1879). — D’Albert. Nuova Guinea, pp. 57, 71, 582, cum tab. (1880).— Salvad. 
Orn. Papuasia, etc. ii. p. 524 (1881). — Eudes-Deslongch. Ann. Mus. Caen, i. p. 37 (1880).— 
Guillem. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1885, p. 647. — Salvad. Agg. Orn. Papuasia, etc. ii. p. 150 (1890). 
Lophorhina atra, Sclater, Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. p. 163 (1858). — M r allace, Malay Arch. ii. p. 406, cum fig. 
(1860). — Gray, Hand-1. B. ii. p. 18, no. 6254 (1870). — Sundev. Av. Tent. p. 45 (1872). — Elliot, Monogr. 
Parad. pi. 11 (1873). — D’Albert. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 558. — Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 697. 
— Meyer, Mitth. k. Zool. Mus. Dresden, i. pp. 7, 8 (1875), — Beccari, Ann. Mus. Genov, vii. p. 712 
(1875). — Salvad. tom. cit. p. 783 (1875). — D’Albert. tom. cit. p. 798. — Id. Nuova Guinea, pp. 67, 
311 (1880).— Cory, Beautiful and Curious Birds, part vi. (1883). — D’Hamonv. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 
1886, p. 510. 
Epimachus ater, Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Coraces, p. 96, note (1876). — Id. Nederl. Tijdschr, Dierk. iv. p. 17 
(1871). 
This beautiful Bird of Paradise is confined to New Guinea, and has a somewhat restricted range, as, so far 
as we know, it is only found in the north-western portion of the island. In fact it is as yet known only from 
the Arfak Mountains, being replaced by Lophorhina minor in the mountains of South-eastern New Guinea. 
In the former locality the species has been found by D’Albertis and Beccari, and many specimens procured 
by Mr. Bruijn’s hunters have found their way to Europe. 
Signor D’Albertis says : — •“ The natives give this bird the name of ‘ Niedda,’ derived from the sound of 
its notes ! ” 
Dr. Beccari does not give much information about the present species in his “ Ornithological Letter” 
from North-western New Guinea. He merely observes : — “ Lophorhina atra is rather rarer than Parotia ; 
hut I must tell you that the abundance of fruit-eating birds in a given locality depends principally on the 
season at which certain kinds of fruit are ripe; therefore a species may he common in a place one 
month, and become rare or completely disappear in the next, when the season of the fruit on which it lives 
has passed.” 
