Common name

Common name : Curl-caped Bird-of-Paradise.

Remarks: Specimens not examined, but subspecies recognized in niedda , fide Cracraft (1992) and Beehler & Pratt (2016), notwithstanding Hartert’s (1930) reservations. A close sister relationship between the forms niedda and inopinata is to be expected given the zoogeographic affinities of the montane avifauna of the Wandammen Peninsula, e.g. co-occurrence of Amblyornis inornatus , Melipotes gymnops and Parotia sefilata in the mountains of the Doberai and Wandammen Peninsulas. The English name for this species is drawn from the uniquely out-curling attenuate tips to the long feathers in the cape of males.