Growling Riflebird

SCI Name:  Ptiloris intercedens
Protonym:  Ptiloris intercedens J.Linn.Soc.LondonZool. 16 p.444
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Paradisaeidae / Ptiloris
Taxonomy Code:  magrif2
Type Locality:  Milne Bay and East Cape, southeastern New Guinea.
Author:  Sharpe
Publish Year:  1882
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

Ptiloris
(syn. Lophorina Ϯ Paradise Riflebird L. paradisea) Gr. πτιλον ptilon  feather; ῥις rhis, ῥινος rhinos  nostrils; "Genus. PTILORIS. Mihi.  Tribe Tenuirostres.*  Family. Meliphagidæ.  Vigors. Mihi.   GENERIC CHARACTERS.   Rostrum longissimum, compressum, falciforme.  Nares basales, plumosi, paertura lineari.  Tarsi breves.  Hallux validus.  Tarsus halluxque æquales, plantæ planæ, latæ.  Cauda brevis,æqualis.  Alæ rotundatæ.  ...  I shall therefore merely observe, that while this genus seems to open a passage to the next family of Paradiseidæ, it gives a typical representation of that group among the Meliphagidæ.  ...  PTILORIS paradiseus.  ...  In this sex [♂] the nostrils are completely hid by the frontal feathers, which entirely cover the membrane." (Swainson 1825); "Ptiloris Swainson, 1825, Zool. Journ., 1 (4), p. 479. Type, by monotypy, Ptiloris paradiseus Swainson." (Mayr in Peters 1962, XV, 187). Cracraft 1992, recognised five diagnosably distinct species in this genus.   Var. Ptilorbis, Ptilorhis, Ptilorhys.

intercedens
L. intercedens, intercedentis  interposed, coming between  < intercedere  to come between.
● Not only does the Growling Riflebird occupy eastern New Guinea, between the ranges of the two subspp. of the Magnificent Riflebird L. magnifica, but the female resembles the female of the nominate subsp. and the male resembles the male of the other (Lophorina).