Duivenbode's six-wired bird-of-paradise

Duivenbode's six-wired bird-of-paradise, also known as Duivenbode's six-plumed bird-of-paradise,^[1] is a bird in the family Paradisaeidae that is an intergeneric hybrid between a western parotia and greater lophorina. The common name commemorates Maarten Dirk van Renesse van Duivenbode (1804–1878), Dutch trader of naturalia on Ternate.

Duivenbode's six-wired bird-of-paradise
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Superfamily:	Corvoidea
Family:	Paradisaeidae
Hybrid:	Parotia sefilata × Lophorina superba
Synonyms
Parotia duivenbodei Rothschild, 1900

History

Two adult male specimens are known of this hybrid, coming from the Geelvink Bay region of north-western New Guinea, and held in the American Museum of Natural History and the French Natural History Museum.^[2]