Lawes's Parotia

SCI Name:  Parotia lawesii
Protonym:  Parotia lawesii Proc.Linn.Soc.NewS.Wales 10 p.243
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Paradisaeidae / Parotia
Taxonomy Code:  lawpar1
Type Locality:  Astrolabe Mountains.
Author:  Ramsay, EP
Publish Year:  1885
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

PAROTIA
(Paradisaeidae; Ϯ Western Parotia P. sefilata) Gr. παρωτις parōtis  curl of hair by the ear  < παρ par  near; ους ous, ωτος ōtos  ear; from behind the eyes of the male Western Parotia or Six-wired Bird of Paradise spring racquet-tipped head-wires; "Le sifilet. (Paradisea aurea). Noir, sans filets au croupion, mais trois longs partant de chaque oreille, terminés par un disque verd doré." (Cuvier 1798); "86. SIFILET, Parotia.  Paradisea, Linn. Gm. Lath.  Bec garni de plumes courtes jusqu'au-delà du milieu, grêle, comprimé latéralement, tendu, échancré et fléchi à la pointe. — Plumes hypochondriales, longues, larges, décomposées.   Esp. Sifilet, Buff." (Vieillot 1816); "Parotia Vieillot, 1816, Analyse, p. 35. Type, by monotypy, "Sifilet, Buff." = P. sefilata Pennant." (Mayr in Peters 1962, XV, 194). Cracraft 1992, considered that Parotia consisted of ten well-differentiated species.
Var. Parotica (παρ par  near; ωτικος ōtikos  of the ear), Parolia.
Synon. Otostylis.

lawesii
Revd. William George Lawes (1839-1907) British missionary to New Guinea (Parotia).

SUBSPECIES

Lawes's Parotia (Lawes's)
SCI Name: Parotia lawesii lawesii
lawesii
Revd. William George Lawes (1839-1907) British missionary to New Guinea (Parotia).

Lawes's Parotia (Eastern)
SCI Name: Parotia lawesii helenae
helenae
• Renée Marie Jeanne Hélène Lavauden (1912-1989) daughter of French naturalist and forester Louis Lavauden (subsp. Galerida cristata).
• Helen McMahon Cutting (1894-1961) wife of US explorer C. Suydam Cutting (subsp. Harpactes erythrocephalus).
• Gr. myth. Helen of Troy, “the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ilium,” wife to Menelaüs and the most beautiful woman of her age (Hypothymis).
• Helen or Ellen Kelsall née Owens (1873-1930) wife of Colonel H. J. Kelsall, collector in tropical Africa 1910-1913 (subsp. Laniarius barbarus).
• Helen Luise Elisabeth Herzogin zu Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Princesse d’Orléans (1814-1858) wife of patron of natural history Ferdinand Philippe Duc d’Orléans (Lophornis).
• Elena de Faz Booth y Tinto (d. 1850) wife of Cuban plantation owner Carlos Booth y Tinto, who befriended Gundlach (Mellisuga).
• Helen Mackenzie McConnell née Alexander (1871-1954) wife of English collector F. V. McConnell (subsp. Neopipo cinnamomea).
• Helena Forde née Scott (1832-1910) Australian entomologist, oologist and artist (subsp. Parotia lawesii).
• Helena Mary Ann Oates née Blythe (1865-1903) wife of English naturalist Eugene W. Oates (Björn Bergenholtz in litt.) (syn. Polyplectron bicalcaratum).
• Helen Livingston Greenway née Scott (1903-1985) first wife of US ornithologist James C. Greenway, Jr. (Paul Scofield in litt.) (subsp. Stachyris strialata).