Birds-of-paradise (Paradisaeidae)
Lawes' Parotia (Parotia lawesii) - HBW 14, p. 471
French: Paradisier de Lawes
German: Blaunacken-Paradiesvogel
Spanish: Ave-del-paraíso de Lawes
Other common names: Lawes's Six-wired Bird-of-paradise, Lawes's Six-plumed Bird-of-paradise; Eastern/Helena's Parotia (helenae)
Taxonomy: Parotia lawesii E. P. Ramsay, 1885, Astrolabe Mountains, subsequently considered to be Aruma Apa-Maguli Range, Owen Stanley Range, New Guinea.
Intergeneric hybridization with Paradisaea rudolphi recorded; no records of hybridization with sympatric P. carolae. Race helenae sometimes treated as a separate species. Additional proposed races exhibita (described from Mt Hagen area) and fuscior (Herzog Mts) synonymized with nominate. Two subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- lawesii E. P. Ramsay, 1885 - highlands of EC New Guinea E to S slopes of SE peninsula.
- helenae De Vis, 1897 - N watershed of peninsular SE New Guinea (from Waria SE to Milne Bay), possibly also S watershed in extreme SE.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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Mounted male.
Locality Museum of Natural History, Wrocław University, Wrocław, Lower Silesian Province, Poland (ssp lawesii)
Tomasz Doroń 27 October 2006 2 years ago 1.7
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