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Species
Drepanornis bruijnii Oustalet, 1879
Nomenclature
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Family: ParadisaeidaeGenus: Drepanornis
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SUMMARY
Fairly large paradisaeid with very long, sickle-shaped pale bill and medium-length tail. Male has forehead, crown and anterior loral area variable dark brown, elongate feathers above eye forming erectile tuft that is iridescent blue-purple and/ or red-purple in certain lights; chin, throat and ear-covens darker, velvety blackish-brown with leaf-green iridescence; extensive bare facial skin lead-grey with slight purple hue, small roughly circular patch of strongly iridescent blue to purple fine scale-like feathers below eye and over base of lower mandible; mantle and upper back dull brown, becoming cinnamon-brown on lower back, rump and uppertail-coverts; upperwing brown, with narrow richer and slightly paler cinnamon leading edges of greater coverts, tertials and secondaries, and paler edges to primaries; uppertail cinnamon-brown; upper breast dark olive-brown, extensive tips of longer feathers (including elongate feathers covering bases of pectoral plumes) iridescent olive-green; pectoral plumes dark greyish-brown, shorter row| broadly tipped strong iridescent coppery red, these overlyins longer ones that are finely tipped:« iridescent purple and/or blue; grey feathers of side of lower breast with iridescent leaf-green broad tipping, beyond these a line of jet-black feathers finely lipped with iridescent purple and/or blue; remaining parts of breast and belly dark warm grey with dark lavender wash, thighs, vent and undertail-coverts paler, more greyish-brown; iris dark brown; bill ivory-whitish; legs purplish- brown. Female is similar in size to male but lighter in weight. lacks iridescent feathering; like adult male above but paler, more buff; different below, chin to upper breast buff, becoming darker on lower breast and paler cinnamon on belly, vent and undertail-coverts; chin and throat finely flecked » blackish-brown, otherwise regularly barred blackish-brown below. Juvenile undescribed; immature male like adult female, but tail longer than adult of both sexes; subadult male variable, from similar to adult female with few feathers of adult male plumage intruding to like adult male with M few feathers of female-like plumage remaining, acquires dark throat feathers and pectoral plumes M first, with partial warm grey of underparts only and much barring retained, and gains more grey dorsal feathering as barring diminishes with subsequent moults; male tail length decreases slightly with age.