Lupton's bird-of-paradise

Lupton's bird-of-paradise is a bird in the family Paradisaeidae that is a hybrid between a greater bird-of-paradise and raggiana bird-of-paradise. It was described by Percy Lowe in 1923 as a subspecies of the greater bird-of-paradise, though he also noted the possibility of hybridisation.^[2]

Lupton's bird-of-paradise
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Paradisaeidae
Genus:	Paradisaea
Species:	P. apoda × P. raggiana
Synonyms
Paradisaea apoda luptoni Lowe, 1923[1]

History

This hybrid is known from many adult male specimens taken from the Fly River region of southern New Guinea.^[2]