Birds-of-paradise (Paradisaeidae)
Black-billed Sicklebill (Drepanornis albertisi) - HBW 14, p. 480
French: Paradisier d'Albertis
German: Gelbschwanz-Paradieshopf
Spanish: Ave-del-paraíso de Albertis
Other common names: Black-billed/Red/Short-tailed Sicklebill, Black-billed/D'Albertis's Bird-of-paradise
Taxonomy: Drepanephorus albertisi P. L. Sclater, 1873, Hatam, Arfak Mountains, New Guinea.
Genus sometimes subsumed in Epimachus. Possibly forms a superspecies with D. bruijnii. Birds from Huon Peninsula sometimes recognized as race geisleri; further study required. Proposed race inversus (described from Mt. Kunupi, in Weyland Mts) synonymized with cervinicauda. Two subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- albertisi ( P. L. Sclater, 1873) - non-Cordilleran ranges of New Guinea, including mountains of Vogelkop, Wandammen Peninsula and Huon Peninsula, and presumably also Fakfak Mts, Kumawa Mts and Foja Mts.
- cervinicauda P. L. Sclater, 1884 - C Cordillera of New Guinea from Weyland Mts E, very patchily, to Lordberg and Tari area and mountains of SE New Guinea.
- Least Concern
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