Paradisaeidae Collection

Paradisaea rudolphi, blue bird of paradise
Image of a male and female blue bird of paradise, Paradisaea rudolphi. New Guinea. From the Natural History Museum at Tring

Key for Eggs of Paradiseidae
Key to Plate X from Novitates Zoologicae, Volume XVII, 1910. By Henrik Gronvold. Please see image 100055 for original plate

Eggs of Paradiseidae
Plate X from Novitates Zoologicae, Volume XVII, 1910. By Henrik Gronvold. Please see image 100056 for key

Epimachus ellioti, elliots sicklebill
Plate from a first edition of Birds of New Guinea by John Gould (1804 - 1881)

Bird-of-paradise
Plate 612 from Konrad Gesners Historia Animalium, Vol.3, (1555)

Greater Bird of Paradise
Illustration of a Greater Bird of Paradise by Eleazar Albin

Cicinnurus regus, king bird-of-paradise
Plate 74, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

Paradisaea minor, lesser bird-of-paradise
Plate 11, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China

Paradisaea regia: manucode
Plate 26 from Louis-Isidore Duperreys Voyage de la Coquille 1822-1825, Zoologie Atlas, (1826). From drawings made during his voyage to Chile, Peru, Polynesia, Indoneasia

Cicinnurus regius, king bird-of-paradise
Plate 362 from Carolus Clusius Exoticorum libri decem : quibus Animalium, Plantarum, Aromatum, alioramque peregrinorum Fructuum Histori describuntur, (1605)

Ptiloris magnificus, magnificent riflebird

Ptiloris paradiseus, paradise riflebird
Plate 100, hand coloured lithograph by John and Elizabeth Gould from John Goulds The Birds of Australia, Vol.4, (1840-1848)

Diphyllodes magnificus / Cicinnurus regius, hybrid magnificen
Plate 21 from John Goulds The Birds of New Guinea, Vol.1 (1875-88). Hand coloured lithograph

Drepanornis albertisi, black-billed sicklebill
Plate 11 from John Goulds The Birds of New Guinea, Vol. 1 (1875-88). Hand coloured lithograph

Pteridophora alberti, King of Saxony bird-of-paradise
Plate 38 from Richard Bowdler Sharpes Monograph of the Paradiseidae, or Birds of Paradise, and Ptilonorynchid, or Bower Birds, Vol. 1 (1891-98)

Trumpet Manucode
Illustration of a Trumpet Manucode by John Gould (1804-1881)

Paradisaea rubra, red bird-of-paradise
Plate 6 from Francois Le Vaillants Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de paradis et des rocliers, Vol.1, (1806)

Paradisaea rudolphi, blue bird of paradise
Image of a male blue bird of paradise, Paradisaea rudolphi. New Guinea. From the Natural History Museum at Tring

Paradisaea apoda, greater bird-of-paradise
Mounted specimen of the greater bird-of-paradise (Paradisaea apoda), from the Natural History Museum at Tring

Paradisaea raggiana, raggiana bird-of-paradise
Trade skin of the Raggiana bird-of-paradise. Skins such as this were the first specimens of birds of paradise to reach Europe

Paradisaea minor, Lesser bird-of-paradise
Photograph of a lesser-bird-of-paradise specimen, held at the Natural History Museum at Tring

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