Subspecies Accipiter (Paraspizias) cirrocephalus cirrocephalus (Vieillot, 1817)

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• Sparvius cirrocephalus Vieillot, L.P. 1817. Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Historie Naturelle, applicquée aux Arts, principalement à l'Agriculture et à l'Économie rurale et domestique par une Société de Naturalistes et d'Agriculteurs. Paris : Déterville Vol. 10 pp. [329].

  Type data:

   Holotype Unknown (Missing), New South Wales.

  Type locality references:

  Voisin C. & Voisin J.-F. 2001. Liste des types d'oiseaux des collections du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle de Paris. 8 : Rapaces diurnes (Accipitridés), première partie. Zoosystema 23(1): 173-190 [184].
• Accipiter torquatus Vigors, N.A. & Horsfield, T. 1827. A description of the Australian birds in the collection of the Linnean Society; with an attempt at arranging them according to their natural affinities. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 15: 170-331 [Date published 17 Feb 1827: publication dated 1826] [182].

  Type data:

   Holotype Unknown (Unlocated. Not Temminck, 1823), New South Wales
  Comment: Unlocated.
• Nisus australis Lesson, R.P. 1830. Traité d'Ornithologie, ou Tableau Méthodique des ordres, sous-ordres, familles, tribus, genres, sous-genres et races d'oiseaux. Paris : F.G. Levrault Vol. 1 xxxii 659 pp., Vol. 2 (Atlas) xii 119. [Date published July 1830: Livr. 3, July 1830, dated 1831; Livr. 6 published 1831] [61].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MNHP C.G: 1999-2129 Skin, Timor.
  Paralectotype(s) MNHP C.G: 1999-2128 Skin, Timor.

  Type locality references:

  Voisin C. & Voisin J.-F. 2001. Liste des types d'oiseaux des collections du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle de Paris. 8 : Rapaces diurnes (Accipitridés), première partie. Zoosystema 23(1): 173-190 [183].
• Falco macrodactylus Kaup, J.J. 1848. Monograph of the genera of the Falconidae. Isis von Oken 41(10): 753-774 [nomen nudum. Attributed to Temminck, Leiden Museum].
• Falco striatus Strickland, H.E. in Strickland, H.E. & Jardine, W. (eds) 1855. Ornithological Synonyms Vol. 1. Accipitres. London : John van Voorst xlvi 222 pp. [Mathews, G.M. 1925. The Birds of Australia. Supplements 4 & 5. Bibliography of the Birds of Australia Pts 1 & 2. London : H.F. & G. Witherby viii 149 pp.].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Unknown (Unlocated), New South Wales.
• Accipiter cirrhocephalus Sharpe, 1874 [nomen nudum].

  Type locality references:

  Sharpe, R.B. 1874. Catalogue of the Accipitres or Diurnal Birds of Prey in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum Trustees Vol. 1 pp.xiii+479. [141].
• Astur cirrocephalus broomei Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [247].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 533982 Skin, Broome Hill, Western Australia [33°50'S, 117°35'E].

  Type locality references:

  Greenway, J.C. Jnr 1973. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Part 1. Tinamidae, Spheniscidae, Gaviidae, Podicipedidae, Diomedeidae, Procellariidae, Hydrobatidae, Pelecanoididae, Phaethontidae, Pelecanidae, Sulidae, Phalacrocoracidae, Anhingidae, Fregatidae, Ardeidae, Cochleariidae, Scopidae, Ciconiidae, Threskiornithidae, Phoenicopteridae, Anatidae, Cathartidae, Accipitridae, Falconidae, Megapodiidae, Cracidae, Tetraonidae, Phasianidae, Numididae, Meleagrididae, Turnicidae, Pedionomidae, Gruidae, Rallidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 150(3): 207-346 [268].
• Accipiter cirrhocephalus quaesitandus Mathews, G.M. 1915. The Birds of Australia. London : H.F. & G. Witherby Vol. 5 pp. [81].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 533939 Skin, Utingu, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland
  Comment: Same specimen as Accipiter cirrocephalus haesitata M. LeCroy in litt.

  Type locality references:

  Greenway, J.C. Jnr 1973. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Part 1. Tinamidae, Spheniscidae, Gaviidae, Podicipedidae, Diomedeidae, Procellariidae, Hydrobatidae, Pelecanoididae, Phaethontidae, Pelecanidae, Sulidae, Phalacrocoracidae, Anhingidae, Fregatidae, Ardeidae, Cochleariidae, Scopidae, Ciconiidae, Threskiornithidae, Phoenicopteridae, Anatidae, Cathartidae, Accipitridae, Falconidae, Megapodiidae, Cracidae, Tetraonidae, Phasianidae, Numididae, Meleagrididae, Turnicidae, Pedionomidae, Gruidae, Rallidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 150(3): 207-346 [268].
• Accipiter cirrocephalus haesitata Mathews, G.M. 1917. Additions and corrections to my list. Austral Avian Records 3: 127-128 [For publication date Mathews, G.M. 1919. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 7 pt 5 pp. 385–499 + xii pls 363–370 Appendixes A & B (Appendix B)] [128].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 533939 Skin (Same specimen as Accipiter cirrocephalus queenslandicus M. LeCroy in litt.), Utingu, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland
  Comment: Same specimen as Accipiter cirrocephalus quaesitandus M. LeCroy in litt.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

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