 | This article relies largely or entirely on a single source .(December 2025) |
| Hooded jewel-babbler | |
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| Holotype (h) and paratype (p) individuals | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Cinclosomatidae |
| Genus: | Ptilorrhoa |
| Species: | P. urrissia |
| Binomial name | |
| Ptilorrhoa urrissia Woxvold et al., 2025 | |
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| Type locality [▲] in Papua New Guinea | |
The hooded jewel-babbler (Ptilorrhoa urrissia) is a species of bird in the family Cinclosomatidae, endemic to the rainforests of Papua New Guinea. It is one of five named species in the genus Ptilorrhoa (jewel-babblers), currently known only from camera trap photograph sequences obtained between 2017 and 2024. It can be distinguished from all other jewel-babblers by the chestnut-coloured nape and crown , combined with an all blue (male) or olive green and blue (female) plumage below the neck, and that this pattern of sexual dichromatism (different colour patterns for male and female), and the shape of the black mask on the face that does not extend past the ear-coverts . [1]
The name urrissia refers to location at it was discovered, "Urrissia", in the local Fasu language. [1]