astrapia

Updated: May 14, 2025

The bill is black and the feet yellow. The Astrapia seems to me to be somewhat intermediate between the Paradiseidae and Epimachidae. There is an allied species, having a bare carunculated head, which has been called Paradigalla carunculata.

Alfred Russel Wallace - The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2