Species Amytornis (Amytornis) ballarae Condon, 1969

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• Amytornis textilis ballarae Condon, H.T. 1969. A new subspecies of the Western Grass-wren, Amytornis textilis (Dumont) in north-western Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 15(3): 205-206 [Date published 28 May 1969] [205].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM O.10692 ♀, Qld: six miles south of Mary Kathleen, near Ballara Copper Mine.
  Paratype(s) QM O.11011 ♀, Qld: Sybella Creek, Mt Isa.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Channel Country (CHC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD)

Ecological Descriptors

Rocky hummock grassfield.

Common Name References

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. (Kalkadoon Grasswren)

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