Common name

Common name : Magnificent Riflebird

Range: All western New Guinea east on the north coast to footslopes of the lower Sepik and Schrader Ranges and on the south to the Purari River basin (Pio River), c. 100–1000 m a.s.l.

Remarks: Vieillot specified no more precise locality than ‘La Nouvelle-Guinée’ as the source of his material when describing this species, but his description ‘les plumes du capistratum s’avancent un peu sur les narines’ points to the western species in New Guinea. Mayr (1941, 1962) restricted the type locality arbitrarily to Dorei = Manokwari, Vogelkop , without explanation, a practice not recognised by Article 76 of the Code ( ICZN, 1999).