Lawes's parotia (Parotia lawesii)

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Subject:	Lawes's parotia (Parotia lawesii)
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Description
English: « Parotia lawesi » = Parotia lawesii (Lawes's Parotia)
Français: « Parotia lawesi » = Parotia lawesii (Paradisier de Lawes)
Date 1896
Source Novitates Zoologicae, vol. 3 http://archive.org/stream/novitateszoologi03lond#page/10/mode/2up
Author John Gerrard Keulemans (1842–1912)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Parotia_lawesii_1896.jpg

Lawes's parotia (Parotia lawesii), is a medium-sized (up to 27 cm long) passerine of the bird-of-paradise family, Paradisaeidae. It is distributed and endemic to mountain forests of southeast and eastern Papua New Guinea. Occasionally, the eastern parotia is considered a subspecies of P. lawesii.

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