Species Trichoglossus chlorolepidotus (Kuhl, 1820)

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Species Trichoglossus chlorolepidotus (Kuhl, 1820)

Scaly-breasted Lorikeet

Psittacus chlorolepidotus Kuhl, H. 1820. Conspectus Psittacorum. Cum specierum definitionibus, novarum descriptionibus, synonymis et circa patriam singularum naturalem adversariis, adjecto indice museorum, ubi earum artificiosae exuviae servantur. Nova Acta Physico-Medica Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae 10: 1-104 pls I-III [48] [evidently based on same specimen as Trichoglossus matoni Vigors & Horsfield, 1827, see Mathews, G.M. 1916. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 6 pt 1. pp. 1–104 pls 275–282 [publication dated as 1916–1917, 22 Nov. 1916] (34); Warren, R.L.M. 1966. Type-specimens of Birds in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. 1 Non-Passerines. London : British Museum ix 320 pp.; cf. 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 [publication dated 1826, published Feb. 1827]].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1863.7.7.56 unsexed adult (ex Linnean Society of London coll.), New South Wales (central east coast) (as Nova Hollandia)
Comment: for identification of holotype, see Warren, R.L.M. 1966. Type-specimens of Birds in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. 1 Non-Passerines. London : British Museum ix 320 pp.-by the handwriting on the field label, it was collected by Robert Brown, and may have come from anywhere on the central- and northeast coast of Australia.
Type locality references:
Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912]; Warren, R.L.M. 1966. Type-specimens of Birds in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. 1 Non-Passerines. London : British Museum ix 320 pp.
Trichoglossus matoni 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] [291] [junior objective synonym of Psittacus chlorolepidotus Kuhl, 1820 (q.v.), evidently based on same specimen, cf. 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 [publication dated 1826, published Feb. 1827] (footnote to p. 291)].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1863.7.7.56 unsexed adult (ex Linnean Society of London coll.), New South Wales (central east coast) (as New Holland)
Comment: for deposition and identification of holotype, see Salvadori, T. 1891. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Psittaci, or Parrots. London : British Museum Vol. 20 xvii 658 pp. XVIII pls (66); Sharpe, R.B. 1906. Birds. pp. 79–515 in, The History of the Collections contained in the Natural History Departments of the British Museum. London : British Museum Vol. 2. (414-416); Warren, R.L.M. 1966. Type-specimens of Birds in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. 1 Non-Passerines. London : British Museum ix 320 pp.
Australasia viridis 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] [210] [livr. 3; described from material taken by J.R.C.Quoy and J.P.Gaimard, probably between Sydney and Bathurst which Quoy visited in Nov.-Dec. 1819 on his only stop in the range of this species, see Pucheran, J. 1853. Etudes sur les types peu connus du Musée de Paris. Sixième article. (Grimpeurs). Rev. Mag. Zool. Paris 2 5: 156–164; Whittell, H.M. 1954. The Literature of Australian Birds: a History and Bibliography of Australian Ornithology. Perth : Paterson Brokensha xi 116 788 pp. (72)].
Type data:
Holotype MNHP, Sydney-Bathurst, NSW (as Timor (?))
Comment: for identification of holotype and correction of its provenance, see Pucheran, J. 1853. Etudes sur les types peu connus du Musée de Paris. Sixième article. (Grimpeurs). Rev. Mag. Zool. Paris 2 5: 156–164; Hellmayr, C.E. 1916. Weiteres zur avifauna von Timor. Novitates Zoologicae 23: 96–111.
Psitteuteles neglectus Reichenow, A. 1898. Psitteuteles neglectus, Rchw. n.sp. Oriental Insects 6: 4-5 [4] [type locality restricted to Cape York by Mathews, G.M. 1927. Systema Avium Australasianarum. A systematic list of the birds of the Australasian region. London : British Ornithologists' Union Pt 1 iv 426 pp., upon presumption that collector Emil Weiske only worked there in Australia—but Weiske collected at Cairns as well, within the normal range for the species, see Whittell, H.M. 1954. The Literature of Australian Birds: a History and Bibliography of Australian Ornithology. Perth : Paterson Brokensha xi 116 788 pp. (747)].
Type data:
Syntype(s) ZMB, Cairns, QLD (as North Queensland).
Type locality references:
Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912].
Eutelipsitta chlorolepidota minor 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] [57].
Type data:

Syntype(s) AMNH 617593 ♂ (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. unspecified), Cairns, north QLD (as North Queensland); AMNH 617594 unsexed (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. unspecified), Cairns, north QLD (as North Queensland); AMNH 617595 unsexed (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. unspecified), Cairns, north QLD (as North Queensland); AMNH 617596 unsexed (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. unspecified), Cairns, north QLD (as North Queensland); AMNH 617597 unsexed (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. unspecified), Cairns, north QLD (as North Queensland); AMNH 617598 unsexed (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. 16808), Cairns, north QLD (as North Queensland); AMNH 617599 unsexed (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. 16808), Cairns, north QLD (as North Queensland)
Comment: for identification of syntypes and type locality, see Greenway, J.C. 1978. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Pt 2. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 161: 1–306.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. [183]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Coastal and subcoastal E Australia, north to about Endeavour River (breeding) and erratically to most of Cape York Peninsula, QLD, south to the Illawarra district, NSW, and inland to the inner west slopes of the Great Dividing Range, reaching the upper Lynd River and Warrego-Carnarvon Ranges in the north, and the Darling Downs, Moree district, Warrumbungle Ranges and upper Lachlan River drainage in the south—also main off-shore islands: Fraser, Bribie, Moreton and Stradbroke. Introduced and established successfully in the environs of Melbourne during 1970s.

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
- Northern Territory: N Gulf
- Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
- Victoria: SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, diurnal, frugivorous, gregarious, mellivore, nomadic, open forest, tall forest, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder/opportunistic breeder, feeds on nectar, pollen, fruit-flesh and (accidentally?) seeds and insects in tree crowns in eucalypt-paperbark (Melaleuca) woodland and open forest, rarely pockets of rainforest, flocks and roosts in communal groups, flies directly on swiftly beating wings, nests on bed of wood dust in high tree hollows, incubation by female, both sexes rear white-downed, dark-billed chicks, wanders both locally and regionally to seasonal food sources.