Ptilonorhynchus

Other species include the well-known gang-gang cockatoo Callocephalon fimbriatum, glossy black cockatoo Calyptorhynchus lathami, superb lyrebird Menura novaehollandiae, crimson rosella Platycercus elegans, kookaburra Dacelo gigas, and satin bowerbird Ptilonorhynchus violaceus.

Greater Blue Mountains Area, Australia 2009

The satin bower-bird ( 'Ptilonorhynchus holosericus') belongs to the family of starlings, and though tolerably common in New South Wales, is but a rare visitor to the hotter climate of Northern Queensland.

Australian Search Party Charles Henry Eden 1858

Spotted bowerbirds Ptilonorhynchus maculatus are found in Australia and New Guinea and are best known for their elaborate "bowers", created by males seeking to impress a mate.

BBC News - Home 2011

The mimetic repertoire of the spotted bowerbird Ptilonorhynchus maculatus: Naturwissenschaften The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.

BBC News - Home 2011

(Ptilonorhynchus), the black and red cockatoos (Calyptorhynchus), the blue wrens (Malurus), the crowshrikes (Cracticus), the Australian shrikes (Falcunculus and Colluricincla), and many others, which abound all over Australia, would certainly have spread into Timor if it had been united to that country, or even if for any long time it had approached nearer to it than twenty miles.

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 1 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

Such groups as the bower birds (Ptilonorhynchus), the black and red cockatoos (Calyptorhynchus), the blue wrens (Malurus), the crowshrikes (Cracticus), the Australian shrikes (Falcunculus and

The Malay Archipelago 2004

113 7 Bower Bird; _Ptilonorhynchus violaceus_ (Vieill.) 116 24 Cassava; _Janipha manihot_ Kth. 126 20 Frog, Gawain; _Phyllomedusa_ sp.

Edge of the Jungle William Beebe 1919