Amblyornis
Amblyornis is a genus of passerine birds belonging to the bowerbird family Ptilonorhynchidae. The species are endemic to the mountains of New Guinea.
Birds in this genus build "maypole-type" bowers in which vegetation is arranged around a central vertical sapling or tree-fern.
Taxonomy
The genus Amblyornis was introduced in 1872 by the American zoologist Daniel Giraud Elliot to accommodate a single species, Ptilorhynchus inornatus Schlegel, 1871, the Vogelkop bowerbird, which is the type species by monotypy. The genus name combines the Ancient Greek αμβλυοεις/ambluoeis meaning "dull" with ορνις/ornis meaning "bird".Species
The genus contains four species:| Image | Name | Common name | Distribution |
| Amblyornis flavifrons | Golden-fronted bowerbird | Foja Mountains in the Papua province of Indonesia | |
| Amblyornis macgregoriae | MacGregor's bowerbird | New Guinea | |
| Amblyornis subalaris | Streaked bowerbird | southeastern New Guinea | |
| Amblyornis inornata | Vogelkop bowerbird | Bird's Head Peninsula of western New Guinea |