A second living 'Rawley's Bowerbird' - A wild adult male hybrid from a Regent Bowerbird Sericulus chrysocephalus x Satin Bowerbird Ptilonorhynchus violaceus cross
Clifford B. Frith
pp. 14-15
Abstract
A second observation of a living ‘Rawnsley’s Bowerbird’, the result of hybridisation between a Regent Bowerbird Sericulus chrysocephalus and a Satin Bowerbird Ptilonorhynchus violaceus, was made at Kalang, New South Wales, in October and November 2014. Photographs show an individual very similar to the original specimen collected in 1867 and to the living individual observed in 2003–2004.
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