Subspecies Amaurornis moluccana ruficrissa Gould, 1869

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• Gallinula ruficrissa Gould, J. 1869. The Birds of Australia, Supplement. London : J. Gould Part 5 pp. [Pl. 79 and text].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Unknown, Cape River, Queensland [20°28'S, 145°29'E].

  Secondary source:

   Gould, J. 1869. Descriptions of five new Species of Birds from Queensland, Australia; and a new humming-bird from the Bahamas. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4 4: 108-112 [Date published Apr 1869] [111]; Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. [105].
• Gallinula moluccana yorki Mathews, G.M. 1913. Additions and corrections to my Reference List, Addenda. Austral Avian Records 1(8): 187-194 [Date published Jan.] [194].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 546494 Skin, Skull Creek, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland.

  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 [305].

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Northern Kimberley (NK), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

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