Species Acanthiza (Milligania) robustirostris Milligan, 1903

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• Acanthiza robustirostris Milligan, A.W. 1903. Descriptions of a new Xerophila and a new Acanthiza from Western Australia. The Emu 3(1): 69-72 [Date published 1 Jul 1903] [71].

  Type data:

   Lectotype WAM A.31522 adult ♀, WA: Day Dawn [27°28'S, 117°52'E].

  Type locality references:

  Anonymous 1960. Type specimens in the Western Australian Museum. Western Australian Museum Annual Report 1959-60: 28-30 [29].
• Acanthiza marianae White, S.A. 1915. Another new bird for Australia. South Australian Ornithologist 2: 45-46 [45].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 600925 adult ♂, SA: between Moorilyanna (= Moorelyanna) native well [Moorilyanna Hill [26°50' S, 133°01' E].
  Paratype(s) AMNH 600026 Unknown, SA: between Moorilyanna (= Moorelyanna) native well [Moorilyanna Hill [26°50' S, 133°01' E]; AMNH 600027 Unknown, SA: between Moorilyanna (= Moorelyanna) native well [Moorilyanna Hill [26°50' S, 133°01' E]; AMNH 600028 Unknown (This is also the lectotype of Milligania robustirostris moorilyanna Mathews), SA: between Moorilyanna (= Moorelyanna) native well [Moorilyanna Hill [26°50' S, 133°01' E]; AMNH 600029 Unknown, SA: between Moorilyanna (= Moorelyanna) native well [Moorilyanna Hill [26°50' S, 133°01' E]; AMNH 600930 Unknown, SA: between Moorilyanna (= Moorelyanna) native well [Moorilyanna Hill [26°50' S, 133°01' E]; SAMA B.53295 ♀, SA: Moorilyanna Well; 15 miles west of [26°45S, 132°49'E]; SAMA B.53296 ♀, SA: Moorilyanna Well; between Moorilyanna Well and Everard Ranges [26°55'S, 132°55'E]; SAMA B.53297 ♀, SA: Moorilyanna Well; between Moorilyanna Well and Everard Ranges [26°55'S, 132°55'E]; SAMA B.53298 ♂, SA: Moorilyanna Well; 10 miles West of [26°49' S, 132°53' E]; SAMA B.53299 ♂, SA: Everard Ranges [27°01'S, 132°30'E]; SAMA B.53300 ♂, SA: Moorilyanna Well; between Moorilyanna Well and Everard Ranges [26°55'S, 132°55'E]; SAMA B.53301 ♀, SA: Moorilyanna Well; 35 miles West of [26°36'S, 132°33'E]; SAMA B.53302 ♀, SA: Flat Rock Hole; 30 miles East of Musgrave Ranges [26°32' S, 132°26' E]; SAMA B.53303 ♂, SA: Flat Rock Hole; 20 miles East of Musgrave Ranges [26°32'S, 132°26'E]; SAMA B.53304 ♂, SA: Everard Ranges [27°01'S, 132°30'E].

  Type locality references:

  LeCroy, M. 2008. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, and Petroicidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313(7): 1-298 [162].
• Milligania robustirostris liberia Mathews, G.M. 1916. List of additions of new sub-species to, and changes in, my "List of the Birds of Australia". Austral Avian Records 3(3): 53-68 [Date published 4 Apr 1916] [61] [published 7 April 1916].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 600934 Unsexed, WA: Siberia (= Liberia) Soak [30°14'S, 120°57'E].

  Type locality references:

  LeCroy, M. 2008. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, and Petroicidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313(7): 1-298 [162].
• Milligania robustirostris moorilyanna Mathews, G.M. 1916. In Proceedings of meeting of British Ornithologists' Club, June 14, 1916. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 36: 89-92 [Date published 7 Jul 1916] [90] [published 7 July 1916].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AMNH 600928 adult ♀, SA: Moorilyanna Well; 10 miles West of [26°50' S, 133°01' E].
  Paralectotype(s) AMNH 600925 adult ♂, SA: Moorilyanna (= Moorelyanna) native well [Moorilyanna Hill [26°50' S, 133°01' E]; AMNH 600926 Unknown, SA: between Moorilyanna (= Moorelyanna) native well [Moorilyanna Hill [26°50' S, 133°01' E]; AMNH 600927 Unknown, SA: between Moorilyanna (= Moorelyanna) native well [Moorilyanna Hill [26°50' S, 133°01' E]; AMNH 600929 Unknown, SA: between Moorilyanna (= Moorelyanna) native well [Moorilyanna Hill [26°50' S, 133°01' E]; AMNH 600930 Unknown, SA: between Moorilyanna (= Moorelyanna) native well [Moorilyanna Hill [26°50' S, 133°01' E].

  Type locality references:

  LeCroy, M. 2008. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, and Petroicidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313(7): 1-298 [162].

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, SA, WA: Burt Plain (BRT), Channel Country (CHC), Central Ranges (CR), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Murchison (MUR), Pilbara (PIL), Tanami (TAN)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Casuarina-cypress woodland, mallee (Eucalyptus) woodland, mulga woodland.

 

Common Name References

Anonymous 1969. An Index of Australian Bird Names. Division of WIldlife Research Technical Paper. Canberra : CSIRO Vol. No. 20 pp. 93. [44] (Slaty-backed Thornbill, Large-billed Thornbill, Robust Thornbill, Thick-billed Thornbill, Thick-billed Tit)

Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1999. The Directory of Australian Birds : Passerines. A Taxonomic and Zoogeographic Atlas of the Biodiversity of Birds in Australia and its Territories. Collingwood, Australia : CSIRO Publishing x 851 pp. (Slaty-backed Thornbill)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
31-Oct-2018	ACANTHIZIDAE Bonaparte, 1854	05-Dec-2014	MODIFIED	Dr Wayne Longmore
		12-Feb-2010	(import)