Red Bird-of-Paradise (Paradisaea raggiana), Papua New Guinea, 1917 [picture] /

Watercolour signed by artist.; Ellis Rowan Papuan Collection 275/236.; Condition: Good.; Also called: "Count Raggi's bird of paradise".; "The common bird-of-paradise of southern and southeast Papua New Guinea. It lives in broken and disturbed rainforest and tall forest edge at lowland altitudes up to about 1500 m."--Accompanying notes.; Title based on information from ornithologist from the CSIRO. See acquisition file number NLA/15115.; Exhibited: The Flower Hunter: Ellis Rowan, National Library of Australia Travelling Exhibition, September 2003 - 2005.; R1963