Lesser Bird-of-paradise © flickr.com

Proposed subspecies pulchra (described from Misool, in West Papuan Is) synonymized with nominate.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

• minor Shaw, 1809   -  West Papuan Is (Misool) and western New Guinea eastern in northern watershed to West Papua-Papua New Guinea border and, in southern watershed, to Etna Bay.
• jobiensis Rothschild, 1897   -  Yapen I, in Geelvink Bay (north-western New Guinea).
• finschi A. B. Meyer, 1885   -  Northern New Guinea from just east of border east to Gogol and upper Ramu R.

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