Subspecies Barnardius zonarius semitorquatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1830)
- 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. - 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
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