Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

• Schodde, R. in Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1997. Aves (Columbidae to Coraciidae). In, Houston, W.W.K. & Wells, A. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia Vol. 37.2 xiii 440 pp. [140] (based on data in Ford, J. & Parker, S.A. 1974. Distribution and taxonomy of some birds from south-western Queensland. Emu 74: 177–194; Fisher, D. 1970. Geographic variation and evolution in the Australian Ringneck Parrot (Barnardius). Ph.D. Thesis. Michigan : University of Michigan.; Ford, J. 1987. Hybrid zones in Australian birds. Emu 87: 158–178)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), 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), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), 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), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victorian Midlands (VM), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Bulloo River basin, Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin
  • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, W plateau
  • Queensland: Bulloo River basin, Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf
  • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, W plateau
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin
  • Western Australia: NW coastal, SW coastal, W plateau

General References

Cain, A.J. 1955. A revision of Trichoglossus haematodus and of the Australian platycercine parrots. Ibis 97: 432-479 (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Condon, H.T. 1941. The Australian broadtailed parrots (subfamily Platycercinae). Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 7: 117-144 (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Forshaw, J.M. 1981. Australian Parrots. 2nd (revised) Edn. Illustrated by W.T. Cooper. Melbourne : Lansdowne Edns 312 pp. 56 pls. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Immelmann, K. 1966. Die australischen Plattschweifsittiche. Wittenberg, Lutherstadt : A. Ziemsen (Die Neue Brehm-Bücherei) 128 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Jenkins, C.F.H. 1931. The genus Barnardius. The Emu 30: 258-260 (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Kinghorn, J.R. 1929. Barnardius occidentalis North and its allies. The Emu 29: 1-4 pl. 1 (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement also subsequent revisions)

Peters, J.L. 1937. Check-list of Birds of the World. Cambridge : Harvard University Press Vol. 3 xiii 311 pp. (subspecific arrangement and specific limits only)

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. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Sibley, C.G. & Monroe, B.L., Jr 1990. Distribution and Taxonomy of Birds of the World. New Haven : Yale University Press xxiv 1111 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Wolters, H.E. 1975. Die Vogelarten der Erde. Eine systematische Liste mit Verbreitungsangaben sowie deutschen und englischen Namen. Hamburg : Paul Parey Lief. 1, 1-80 pp. (subspecific arrangement (except for acceptance of B. z. whitei (Mathews, 1912) as valid subspecies))

History of changes

• Platycercus barnardi 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] [283] [as Barnardi; also as incorrect subsequent spelling, bernardi by Bonaparte, C.L. 1854. Tableau des perroquets. Rev. Mag. Zool. Paris 2 6: 145–158 (153); Mitchell, T.L. 1838. Three Expeditions into the Interior of eastern Australia, with descriptions of the recently explored region of Australia Felix, and of the present Colony of New South Wales. London : T. & W. Boone Vol. 1 xxi 351 pp. [published after Aug. 18, 1838 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.] (xviii, after 18 Aug. 1838); based by reference on Barnard's Parrot in Latham, J. 1822. A General History of Birds. Winchester : J. Latham Vol. II 345 pp. pls 18–37 (121), in turn based a specimen from 'the interior' of 'New-Holland' presented to the collection of the Linnean Society of London by E. Barnard; for 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 (559); 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.; provenance of specimen uncertain, but it must have been acquired by the Linnean Society of London after 1919 when H. Kuhl and C.J. Temminck worked over its collection of parrots, and before 1822 when its first vernacular description appeared, see Latham, J. 1822. A General History of Birds. Winchester : J. Latham Vol. II 345 pp. pls 18–37; possible sources then were the two expeditions under John Oxley to the lower Lachlan, middle Macquarie and Castlereagh Rivers, NSW, in 1817 and 1818: they were the only expeditions of the time to penetrate the range of this form, on its eastern fringes—this supposition is strengthened by the associated acquisition of male(s) of Polytelis swainsonii (Desmarest, 1826) by the Linnean Society of London, see Latham (1822) (Scarlet-breasted Parrot)].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1863. 7.7.54 unsexed adult (=♂) (ex. Linnean Society of London coll.), New South Wales, probably the region of the middle-lower Lachlan and Macquarie River drainages (as New Holland).

  Type locality references:

  Schodde, R. in Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1997. Aves (Columbidae to Coraciidae). In, Houston, W.W.K. & Wells, A. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia Vol. 37.2 xiii 440 pp. [143] (cf. Psittacus barrabandii Swainson, 1821 =Polytelis swainsonii (Desmarest, 1826), q.v.).
• Barnardius typicus Bonaparte, C.L. 1854. Tableau des perroquets. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie (Paris) 2 6: 145-158 [153] [nom. nov. for Platycercus barnardi Vigors & Horsfield, 1827 (as Bernardi Latham)].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s).
• Barnardius crommelinae Mathews, G.M. 1925. A new form of Barnardius. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 46: 21 [21] [described in life from an aviary bird in the collection of the Marquess of Tavistock, which was presented to BMNH upon death, 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.; holotype illustrated on frontispiece to no. 6 of vol. 5, ser. 4, of the Avicultural Magazine (June 1927), and on pl. 43 in Mathews, G.M. 1928. The Birds of Norfolk & Lord Howe Islands and the Australasian South Polar Quadrant with Additions to "The Birds of Australia". London : H.F. & G. Witherby xii 139 pp. pls 1–45; interpreted as a blue mutant in which flavonoid pigmentation is lacking by Peters, J.L. 1937. Check-list of Birds of the World. Cambridge : Harvard University Press Vol. 3 xiii 311 pp. and Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia Pt 1 Non-passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp.—nonetheless, both plates show a bird with a rich blue back, broken yellow collar, and plain, unbanded green breast and belly, traits not uncommonly matched in specimens of B. z. barnardi (Vigors & Horsfield, 1827) from the Murray Mallee, SA, to the Riverina, NSW].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1933.1.18.1 ♀ adult, Murray Mallee to Riverina, inland SE Australia (as Australia(?)).

  Type locality references:

  Schodde, R. in Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1997. Aves (Columbidae to Coraciidae). In, Houston, W.W.K. & Wells, A. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia Vol. 37.2 xiii 440 pp. [143].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Schodde, R. in Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1997. Aves (Columbidae to Coraciidae). In, Houston, W.W.K. & Wells, A. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia Vol. 37.2 xiii 440 pp. [142]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Inland E Australia, north to near Winton and Barcaldine, QLD—east to the western footslopes of the Great Dividing range to the Warrego and Carnarvon Ranges and Inglewood, QLD, and Delungra, Wellington, Cowra and Wagga Wagga, NSW, avoiding Warrumbungle Range—south to Howlong, NSW, Bendigo, VIC, and southern limits of Murray Mallee and Ninety-mile Desert (Dimboola-Bordertown-Kingston), SA—west to eastern footslopes of Mt Lofty-Flinders Range system, SA, and patchily north-west to Strzelecki Creek, middle Cooper Creek and Farrars Creek (Cudappan), QLD. Intergrades with B. z. zonarius (Shaw, 1805) through N Mt Lofty-Flinders Range system, west from north Murray Mallee-Olary Spur and Lake Frome to eastern shores of Lake Torrens depression and Spencer Gulf, north to the Frome River and south to Eudunda-Brinkworth, SA—also intergrades with B. z. macgillivrayi (North, 1900) on central-upper Diamantina River drainage (specimens in ANWC). Introduced in region of Sydney (status uncertain).

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Midlands (VM)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Bulloo River basin, Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin
  • Queensland: Bulloo River basin, Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin
  • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, diurnal, florivore, folivore, frugivorous, granivore, gregarious, low open woodland, low woodland, nomadic, open forest, resident, terrestrial, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, restricted to eucalypt-lined watercourses in arid parts of range, feeds mainly on seeds on ground and in trees (mostly eucalypts and Callitris), flies in shallow undulations bringing wings in to side of body, nests on bed of wood dust/debris in tree hollows, incubation by female, both sexes rear pale grey-downed, yellowish-billed chicks, wanders locally or regionally to seasonal food sources.

General References

Boehm, E.F. 1959. Parrots and cockatoos of the Mount Mary Plains, South Australia. The Emu 59: 83-87 (diet, nidification, plumage changes)

Simpson, K.N.G. 1973. Birds of the Murray River region between Mildura and Renmark, Australia - breeding, behavioural and feeding records. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 34: 253-274 (feeding ecology, nidification)

History of changes

• Platycercus macgillivrayi North, A.J. 1900. Description of a new parrakeet from the Burke district, north Queensland. Victorian Naturalist 17: 91-93 [91].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM 0.11837 unsexed (?♂) adult, Leilavale Station, Fullarton River, 48 km E of Cloncurry, QLD (as about 30 miles east of Cloncurry)
  Comment: for identification of holotype, see Hindwood, K.A. 1946. A list of the types and paratypes of birds from Australian localities in the Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 21: 386–393; Longmore (1991).

  Type locality references:

  Longmore, N.W. 1991. Type specimens of birds in the Australian Museum. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum n 4: 1-42.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Selwyn Range and fringing river systems, QLD, north to Musselbrook Creek and middle Leichhardt River, east to middle Cloncurry River and Cadell Creek, south to Glenormiston and Boulia, and west to Toko-Tarlton Ranges and Springvale, NT, but apparently absent from much of intervening Georgina River system (specimens in ANWC). Intergrades to south-east with B. z. barnardi (Vigors & Horsfield, 1827) along upper Diamantina River drainage.

IBRA

NT, Qld: Burt Plain (BRT), Channel Country (CHC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Gulf Plains (GUP), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin
  • Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, diurnal, florivore, folivore, frugivorous, granivore, gregarious, low open woodland, low woodland, nomadic, resident, terrestrial, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, in eucalypt woodlands and eucalypt-lined watercourses, feeds mainly on seeds on ground and in trees, flies in shallow undulations bringing wings in to side of body, nests on bed of wood dust/debris in tree hollows, incubation by female, both sexes rear pale grey-downed, yellowish-billed chicks, wanders locally or regionally to seasonal food sources.

General References

Ford, J. & Parker, S.A. 1974. Distribution and taxonomy of some birds from south-western Queensland. The Emu 74: 177-194 (distribution, evolution)

Horton, W. 1975. The birds of Mt. Isa. Sunbird 6: 49-69 (status, nidification)

Lendon, A.H. 1940. Eggs of the Cloncurry Parrot. South Australian Ornithologist 15: 82 (nidification)

History of changes

• Barnardius zonarius parkeri Forshaw, J.M. & Joseph, L. 2016. A new subspecies of the Australian Ringneck (Barnardius zonarius) from the Upper Cooper Creek Drainage, Lake Eyre Basin, central Australia. Emu 116: 440-444 [443].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA B36278 adult ♂, 15 km north-east of Cullyamurra [Callamurra on label] Waterhole, north-east of Innamincka, South Australia.
  Paratype(s) SAMA B37701 adult ♂, Scrubby Creek Waterhole, north-western arm of Cooper Creek, South Australia; ANWC B40104 adult ♂, on arm of Cooper Creek, west by north-west of Innamincka, South Australia; ANWC B 40100 adult ♀, on arm of Cooper Creek, west by north-west of Innamincka, South Australia.

Distribution

States

Queensland, South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Upper Cooper Creek, northeast SA to southwest QLD

IBRA

Qld, SA: Channel Country (CHC), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD)

History of changes

• Psittacus semitorquatus Quoy, J.R.C. & Gaimard, J.P. in Dumont-d'Urville, J. 1830. Voyage de découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté par ordre du Roi, pendant les anneés 1826–1827–1828–1829, sous le commandement de M.J. Dumont-d'Urville. Zoologie. Paris : J. Tastu Vol. 1 i 268 pp. [no month of publication] [237] [holotype figured on pl. 23 in Dumont-d'Urville, J. 1833. Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabeexécuté pendant les années 1826–1827–1828–1829 sous le commandement de M.J. Dumont-d'Urville, Capitaine de vaisseau. Atlas. Paris : J. Tastu Oiseaux 31 pls pp.].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP, King George Sound, WA (as port du Roi-Georges).
• Platycercus baueri Lear, E. 1831. Illustrations of the family of Psittacidae, or Parrots: the greater part of them species hitherto unfigured, containing forty-two lithographic plates, drawn from life, and on stone. London : E. Lear 42 pls, Pt VI. [published between 1830–1832; Pt VI, Aug. 1831] [pl. 17] [junior homonym of Psittacus baueri Temminck, 1821, senior secondary homonym in Barnardius Bonaparte, 1854; baueri applied to this form by Lear as a new name without reference, see also 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 (559), cf. Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171–455 [publication dated Jan. 1912, published 31 Jan.] and subsequent revisions and Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia Pt 1 Non-passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. who treat it as a misapplication of Psittacus baueri Temminck, 1821; published without description or locality but in association with a coloured illustration and available under ICZN Art. 12(b)(7)—the figure is identifiable with B. z. semitorquatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1830) from its red frons and vari-toned green ventrum; as subject drawn from life in England, the likely type locality is the Swan River around Perth (colonized 1829) or the region of Albany (garrisoned 1826)].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown (?lost, figured on pl. 17 in Lear, E. 1831. Illustrations of the family of Psittacidae, or Parrots: the greater part of them species hitherto unfigured, containing forty-two lithographic plates, drawn from life, and on stone. London : E. Lear 42 pls, Pt VI pp. [published between 1830–1832; Pt VI, Aug. 1831]), Swan River or King George Sound, WA.

  Type locality references:

  Schodde, R. in Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1997. Aves (Columbidae to Coraciidae). In, Houston, W.W.K. & Wells, A. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia Vol. 37.2 xiii 440 pp. [144].
• Conurus caeruleobarbatus Bourjot Saint-Hilaire, A. 1838. Histoire Naturelle des Perroquets, troisième volume (Supplémentaire), pour faire suite aux deux volumes de Levaillant, contenant les espèces laissées inédites par cet auteur ou récemment découvertes. Paris : F.G. Levrault xl 110 pp. 111 pls. [publication dated as 1837–1838] [pl. 40] [as caeruleo-barbatus; name unavailable, being a latinized substantive for a French vernacular name in an inconsistently binominal publication, see Mathews, G.M. 1913. A List of the Birds of Australia containing the names and synonyms connected with each genus, species, and subspecies of birds found in Australia, at present known to the author. London : Witherby xxvii 453 pp. (Appendix C), cf. ICZN Art 11(c); institution uncertain, figured on pl. 40 in Bourjot Saint-Hilaire, A. 1838. Histoire Naturelle des Perroquets, troisième volume (Supplémentaire), pour faire suite aux deux volumes de Levaillant, contenant les espèces laissées inédites par cet auteur ou récemment découvertes. Paris : F.G. Levrault xl 110 pp. 111 pls [publication dated as 1837–1838]].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Schodde, R. in Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1997. Aves (Columbidae to Coraciidae). In, Houston, W.W.K. & Wells, A. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia Vol. 37.2 xiii 440 pp. [144]

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Coastal and subcoastal far SW WA, north and east to a front between Perth, the Darling Range and King George Sound, beyond which there is intergradation with B. z. zonarius (Shaw, 1805) as far as Jurien Bay, Moora, Cunerdin-Kelleberin, Lake Grace and Doubtful Bay. Introduced in region of Sydney (status uncertain).

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Western Australia: SW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, diurnal, florivore, folivore, frugivorous, granivore, gregarious, nomadic, open forest, sedentary, tall forest, terrestrial, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, in tall eucalypt forest and woodland, feeds mainly on seeds on ground and in trees (mostly eucalypts), flies in shallow undulations bringing wings in to side of body, nests on bed of wood dust/debris in tree hollows, incubation by female, both sexes rear pale grey-downed, yellowish-billed chicks, wanders locally to seasonal food sources.

General References

Jenkins, C.F.H. 1969. Notes on the feeding habits of some Western Australian birds. Western Australian Naturalist 11: 52-53 (diet, feeding ecology)

Long, J.L. 1984. The diets of three species of parrots in the south of Western Australia. Australian Wildlife Research 11: 357-371 [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. Mathews, G.M. & Iredale, T. 1915. On the ornithology of the Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles (Levrault). Austral Avian Records 3: 5–20] (diet)

Robinson, A. 1960. The importance of the marri as a food source to south-western Australian birds. Western Australian Naturalist 7: 109-115 (diet, feeding, ecology)

History of changes

• Psittacus zonarius Shaw, G. in Shaw, G. & Nodder, F.P. (ill.) 1805. The Naturalist's Miscellany; or coloured figures of natural objects drawn and described immediately from nature. London : Nodder Vol. XVI pls 637-684. [text to pl. 657] [source material not specified in original description nor in subsequent references, but venue and date of publication indicate that it was collected by Robert Brown on Matthew Flinders' circumnavigation of Australia in 1801–1803, and probably at Memory Cove near Port Lincoln, Eyre Peninsula: all material of this form reaching England up to the time of Gould appears to have come from the tip of Eyre Peninsula, see Gould, J. 1865. Handbook to the Birds of Australia. London : J. Gould 2 629 pp. [For publication date 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.] (44); Brown's collections were deposited in BMNH with a second set going to the Linnean Society of London; only those in the Linnean Society survived, from which they were transferred to BMNH in 1863, see 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); 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. (19); Whittell, H.M. 1954. The Literature of Australian Birds: a History and Bibliography of Australian Ornithology. Perth : Paterson Brokensha xi 116 788 pp. (57–58): because type material of Psittacus zonarius Shaw, 1805 can no longer be traced, it is likely that it was part of the original R. Brown set in BMNH that was dispersed and lost].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown (?lost, ex Robert Brown coll.), Port Lincoln (=Memory Cove), SA (as Australasia).

  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].
• Psittacus viridis Shaw, G. 1812. General Zoology, or Systematic Natural History. Aves. London : Kearsley, Wilkie & Robinson Vol. VIII Pt 2 vi pp. 244-557 pls 46-84. [Date published 1811] [465] [nom. nov. for Psittacus zonarius Shaw, 1805; junior homonym of Psittacus viridis Meuschen, 1787 (=Amazona farinosa (Boddaert, 1783)), nec Psittacus viridis Latham, 1790 (=Eclectus roratus (P.L.S. Müller, 1776)), nec Psittacus elegans viridis Kerr, 1792 (=Platycercus elegans (Gmelin, 1788)), nec Psittacus viridis Perry, 1810 (=Pezoporus wallicus (Kerr, 1792))].
• Psittacus cyanomelas 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 [53] [based on specimen collected by Robert Brown at Memory Cove, SA, on Feb. 23, 1802, on Matthew Flinders' circumnavigation of Australia, see 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] (40–58); 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.].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1863.7.6.5 unsexed adult (ex Linnean Society of London coll.), Memory Cove, Eyre Peninsula, SA (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.
• Psittacus melanocephalus 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 [53] [nom. nov. as synonym of Psittacus cyanomelas Kuhl, 1820, ex R. Brown ms; name unavailable under ICZN Art. 11(e)].
• Psittacus baueri Temminck, C.J. 1821. Account of some new species of birds of the genera Psittacus and Columba, in the Museum of the Linnean Society. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 13: 107-130 [publication dated as 1822] [118] [junior objective synonym of Psittacus cyanomelas Kuhl, 1820, based on same specimen, see entries under H. Kuhl & C.J. Temminck and these specific names in 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., Whittell, H.M. 1954. The Literature of Australian Birds: a History and Bibliography of Australian Ornithology. Perth : Paterson Brokensha xi 116 788 pp. and 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. (33, 74)].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1863.7.6.5 unsexed adult (ex Linnean Society of London coll.), Memory Cove, Eyre Peninsula, SA (as Memory Cove, à la côte sud de la Nouvelle Hollande)
  Comment: for 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 (561); 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.
• Platycercus occidentalis North, A.J. 1893. Description of a new species of parrakeet, of the genus Platycercus, from North-West Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 2: 83-88 [83] [although measurements in original description based on one specimen, ensuing remarks by North in the protologue show that he had two specimens before him, both females from E.H. Saunders at Karratha, neither of which he designated as 'type'; Hindwood, K.A. 1946. A list of the types and paratypes of birds from Australian localities in the Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 21: 386–393 and Longmore, N.W. 1991. Type specimens of birds in the Australian Museum. Technichal Report of the Australian Museum n 4: 1–42 cite one of these, AM 0.3313, as holotype, effecting lectotypification under ICZN Art.74].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM 0.3313 ♀ adult, Karratha Station, 36 miles SW of Roeburne, WA.
  Paralectotype(s) AM 0.3312 ♀ adult.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Hindwood, K.A. 1946. A list of the types and paratypes of birds from Australian localities in the Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 21: 386-393.
• Platycercus zonarius connectens Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [274].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 623205 ♀ (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. 3870), Milly Pool, c. 35 km northwest of Wiluna, WA (as East Murchison)
  Comment: for identification of holotype, 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.

  Type locality references:

  Schodde, R. in Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1997. Aves (Columbidae to Coraciidae). In, Houston, W.W.K. & Wells, A. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia Vol. 37.2 xiii 440 pp. [141] (from itinerary of collector, see Whitlock, F.L. 1910. On the East Murchison. Four months collecting trip. Emu 9: 181–219).
• Platycercus zonarius dundasi Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [274] [holotype figured on pl. 308 and described in detail on p. 375 in Mathews, G.M. 1917. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 6 pt 5 pp. 373–444 pls 308–316 [11 Sept. 1917, volume dated as 1916-1917 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 [publication dated as from preface, 12 June 1919 given in Appendix B] (Appendix B)]; for its identification, 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; holotype interpreted as approaching B. z. semitorquatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1830) in its dark grassy green back by Cain, A.J. 1955. A revision of Trichoglossus haematodus and of the Australian platycercine parrots. Ibis 97: 432–479, nevertheless, its illustration of dark toning generally, black frons, and clearly demarcated ventral pattern match nominotypical B. z. zonarius (Shaw, 1805) from throughout its southern range—moreover, the type locality of dundasi is well east of the zone of intergradation between nominotypical zonarius and semitorquatus recorded by Serventy, D.L. & Whittell, H.M. 1976. Birds of Western Australia. Perth : University Western Australia Press x (un-numbered) 481 pp.].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 623130 ♀ adult (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. 5166), Lake Dundas, WA.
• Barnardius zonarius myrtae White, S.A. 1915. Scientific notes on an expedition into the north-western regions of South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 39: 707-842 [Mathews, G.M. 1920. Dates of ornithological works. Austral Avian Records 4: 1–27] [745] [holotype and paratype figured on pl. 1 in White, S.A. 1916. Central Australian Yellow-banded Parrot (Barnardius zonarius myrtae). Emu 16: 68].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA ♂ (ex S.A. White coll.), Horshoe Bend, Finke River, NT.
  Paratype(s) SAMA ♀ (ex S.A. White coll.).
• Barnardius zonarius woolundra Mathews, G.M. 1919. In Proceedings of meeting of British Ornithologists' Club, Nov. 12, 1919. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 40: 44-45 [44] [holotype identified with nominotypical B. z. zonarius (Shaw, 1805) by Cain, A.J. 1955. A revision of Trichoglossus haematodus and of the Australian platycercine parrots. Ibis 97: 432–479—it is from the range of nominotypical zonarius just east of its intergrade zone with B. z. semitorquatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1830) recorded by Serventy, D.L. & Whittell, H.M. 1976. Birds of Western Australia. Perth : University Western Australia Press x (un-numbered) 481 pp.].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 623132 ♂ (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. unspecified), Woolundra (east of Kellerberrin), WA
  Comment: for identification of holotype, 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

• Schodde, R. in Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1997. Aves (Columbidae to Coraciidae). In, Houston, W.W.K. & Wells, A. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia Vol. 37.2 xiii 440 pp. [142]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Coastal and inland west and central Australia, west to the west coast between Jurien Bay and De Grey River—north to northern fringes of Pilbara (De Grey River), the southern fringes of the Great Sandy Desert, WA, and patchily through the Gibson and Tanami Deserts to Nicholson, the Gardiner Range and the south-western fringes of the Barkly Tableland (Newcastle Waters), NT—east to Elkedra River, Tarlton Range, Field River and western fringes of Simpson Desert, NT to western feeders of Lakes Eyre and Torrens and head of Spencer Gulf, SA—south to the south coast from and including Eyre Peninsula, SA to about Doubtful Bay, WA. Intergrades with B. z. semitorquatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1830) west of a front between Jurien Bay, Moora, Cunerdin-Kelleberin, Lake Grace and Doubtful Bay, SW WA, and with B. z. barnardi (Vigors & Horsfield, 1827) through N Mt Lofty-Flinders Ranges, SA, north to the Frome River, south to Brinkworth and Eudunda, and east on east watersheds at least to Koonamore, Paratoo, and Sutherlands, SA, and psossibly far west NSW. Introduced in Dandenong Ranges, VIC (apparently established) and in region of Sydney (status uncertain).

IBRA

NT, SA, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Burt Plain (BRT), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Murchison (MUR), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, W plateau
  • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, S Gulfs, W plateau
  • Western Australia: NW coastal, SW coastal, W plateau

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, diurnal, florivore, folivore, frugivorous, granivore, gregarious, low open woodland, low woodland, nomadic, resident, terrestrial, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder/opportunistic breeder, restricted to eucalypt-lined watercourses in arid parts of range, feeds mainly on seeds on ground and in trees (mostly eucalypts), flies in shallow undulations bringing wings in to side of body, nests on bed of wood dust/debris in tree hollows, incubation by female, both sexes rear pale grey-downed, yellowish-billed chicks, wanders locally or regionally to seasonal food sources.

General References

Brooker, M. 1973. Port Lincoln Parrots feeding on moth larvae. The Emu 73: 27-28 (diet)

Brooker, M. & Estbergs, A.J. 1976. A survey of terrestrial vertebrates in the Carnarvon region, West Australia. Western Australian Naturalist 13: 160-170 (movements)

Ford, J. & Parker, S.A. 1974. Distribution and taxonomy of some birds from south-western Queensland. The Emu 74: 177-194 (northern and eastern distribution)

Forshaw, J.M. 1981. Australian Parrots. 2nd (revised) Edn. Illustrated by W.T. Cooper. Melbourne : Lansdowne Edns 312 pp. 56 pls. (general biology, references)

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