• CINCLOSOMATIDAE Mathews, G.M. 1921. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby Vol. 9 xiv + 518 pp. [181].

History of changes

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), 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), Flinders (FLI), 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), King (KIN), 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), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: Bulloo River basin, Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, W plateau
  • Queensland: Bulloo River basin, Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, NE coastal
  • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, SE coastal, W plateau
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria
  • Western Australia: NW coastal, SW coastal, W plateau

General References

Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 2008. Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 288 pp. [173] (with removal of Eupetes to separate family, Cinclosoma and Psophodes assigned to family Psophodidae)

History of changes

• Cinclosoma 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] [219].

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), 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), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • South Australia: S Gulfs, SE coastal
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria

History of changes

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), 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), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • South Australia: S Gulfs, SE coastal
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria

Ecological Descriptors

Dry sclerophyll forest, temperate eucalypt.

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. (Spotted Quail-thrush)

History of changes

• Cinclosoma (Cinclosoma) punctatum anachoreta 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. [418].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA B .23140 adult ♀, SA: Blackwood.

Distribution

States

South Australia

IBRA

SA: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • South Australia: S Gulfs

Ecological Descriptors

Dry sclerophyll forest, temperate eucalypt.

History of changes

• Cinclosoma punctatum dovei Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [330].

Distribution

States

Tasmania

IBRA

Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Tasmania

Ecological Descriptors

Dry sclerophyll forest, temperate eucalypt.

History of changes

• Turdus punctatus Shaw, G. 1794. Zoology of New Holland. 33 pp. in Shaw, G. & Smith, J.E. (eds). Zoology and Botany of New Holland, and the isles adjacent. The figures by J. Sowerby, F.L.S. London : J. Sowerby Vol. 1. [pl. 9].
• Turdus punctatus Latham, J. 1801. Supplementum Indicis Ornithologici, sive Systematis Ornithologiae. London : G. Leigh, J. & S. Sotheby 74 pp. [xliv] [junior primary homonym and possible objective synonym of Turdus punctatus Shaw, 1794 (Eupetidae)].
• Cinclosoma punctatum neglectum Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [330].

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), 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
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • South Australia: SE coastal
  • Victoria

Ecological Descriptors

Dry sclerophyll forest, temperate eucalypt.

History of changes

• Malleeavis 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. [419] [published as subgenus].

  Type species:

   Cinclosoma castanotus Gould, 1840 by original designation.

Distribution

States

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

IBRA

NSW, NT, 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), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), 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), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

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

History of changes

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA

NSW, SA, Vic: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD) ; SA, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Hampton (HAM), Mallee (MAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Casuarina-cypress woodland, mallee (Eucalyptus) woodland, sand-plain hummock grassfield.

General References

Dolman, G. & Joseph, L. 2015. Evolutionary history of birds across southern Australia: structure, history and taxonomic implications of mitochondrial DNA diversity in an ecologically diverse suite of species. Emu 115: 35–48 [43] ("… suggest that the combined morphological (Ford 1981; Schodde and Mason 1999; Higgins and Peter 2002) and molecular data (Toon et al. 2012; present study) clearly shift the taxonomic balance in favour of elevating the populations either side of the Eyrean barrier to species rank")

Toon, A., Austin, J.J., Dolman, G., Pedler, L. & Joseph L. 2012. Evolution of arid zone birds in Australia: leapfrog distribution patterns and mesic-arid connections in quail-thrush (Cinclosoma, Cinclosomatidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 62(1): 286-295

History of changes

• Cinclosoma castanotus Gould, 1840.

  Type data:

   Lectotype ANSP 17225 adult ♂, SA: Belts of the Murray.
  Paralectotype(s) ANSP 17221 adult ♀, SA: Belts of the Murray.
• Cinclosoma castaneonotum Gould, 1865.
• Cinclosoma castanotum mayri Condon, H.T. 1962. Australian quail-thrushes of the genus Cinclosoma. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 14: 337-370 [355].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM O.39745 adult ♂, NSW: 20 miles south of Rankin Springs.
  Paratype(s) AM O.39688 adult ♀, NSW: 27 miles north of Griffith.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

NSW, SA, Vic: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD)

Ecological Descriptors

Casuarina-cypress woodland, mallee (Eucalyptus) woodland, sand-plain hummock grassfield.

History of changes

• Cinclosoma (Malleeavis) castanotus fordianum 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. [420].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM A.19681 adult ♂, WA: 14 km north of Middini Beach, south coast.

Distribution

States

South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA

SA, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Hampton (HAM), Mallee (MAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Casuarina-cypress woodland, mallee (Eucalyptus) woodland, sand-plain hummock grassfield.

History of changes

• Cinclosoma castanotum clarum Morgan, A.M. 1926. Cinclosoma castanotum clarum (Chestnut-backed Ground-bird). South Australian Ornithologist 8(5): 138-139 [Date published 1 Jan 1926] [138].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA B.7705 ♂ (author did not give registration number but type can be readily identified with the data), SA: Wipipippee, about 5 miles east of southern end of Lake Gairdner.

  Secondary source:

   Condon, H.T. 1976. Vertebrate type-specimens in the South Australian Museum IV. Birds. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 17: 189-193 [190].

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

"west of the Eyrean Barrier they would be … Western Chestnut Quail-thrush C. clarum Morgan, 1926" Dolman & Joseph (2015: 43)

IBRA

NT, SA, WA: Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Finke (FIN), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Murchison (MUR), Stony Plains (STP), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Casuarina-cypress woodland, mallee (Eucalyptus) woodland, sand-plain hummock grassfield.

General References

Dolman, G. & Joseph, L. 2015. Evolutionary history of birds across southern Australia: structure, history and taxonomic implications of mitochondrial DNA diversity in an ecologically diverse suite of species. Emu 115: 35–48 (recognised at full species level)

History of changes

• Cinclosoma castanotum dundasi Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [330] [holotype intergradient between Cinclosoma castanotus clarum Morgan, 1926 and C. c. fordianum Schodde & Mason, 1999].
• Cinclosoma castanotum morgani Condon, H.T. 1951. Notes on the birds of South Australia: occurrence, distribution and taxonomy. South Australian Ornithologist 20: 26-68 [42] [type material intergradient between Cinclosoma castanotus castanotus Gould, 1840 and C. c. fordianum Schodde & Mason 1999].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA B.5673 ♂, SA: 18 miles north-west of Kimba, Eyre Peninsula.

History of changes

• Samuela Mathews, G.M. 1912. New generic names for Australian birds. Austral Avian Records 1: 105-117 [Date published 24 Dec 1912] [112].

  Type species:

   Cinclosoma cinnamommeum Gould, 1849 by original designation.

Distribution

States

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

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, 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), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), 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), 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), 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
  • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, S Gulfs, W plateau
  • Western Australia: NW coastal, SW coastal, W plateau

History of changes

• Cinclosoma alisteri Mathews, G.M. 1910. Untitled. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 27(163): 16 [Date published 4 Nov 1910] [16].
• Cinclosoma alisteri nullarborensis Campbell, A.J. 1922. Clinclosoma alisteri (Mathews) Black-throated Ground-Bird. The Emu 21(3): 161-162 [Date published 1 Jan 1922] [161].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) NMV HLW.5573 adult ♀, WA: Naretha; NMV HLW.5575 juvenile, WA: Naretha; NMV HLW.5577 adult ♂, WA: Naretha.

Introduction

Removed from subspecific status in C. (S.) cinnamomeum following Toon et al (2012)

Distribution

States

South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA

SA, WA: Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Murchison (MUR), Nullarbor (NUL), Tanami (TAN)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • South Australia: W plateau
  • Western Australia: W plateau

Ecological Descriptors

Chenopodiaceous steppe.

General References

Toon, A., Austin, J.J., Dolman, G., Pedler, L. & Joseph L. 2012. Evolution of arid zone birds in Australia: leapfrog distribution patterns and mesic-arid connections in quail-thrush (Cinclosoma, Cinclosomatidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 62(1): 286-295

History of changes

• Cinclosoma castaneothorax Gould, J. 1849. Description of a new species of Cinclosoma. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 1848(16): 139 [Date published 1 Jun 1849] [139].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1855.11.5.31 adult ♂, Qld: Tableland northward of the Darling Downs.
• Cinclosoma erythrothorax Sharpe, R.B. 1881. Untitled letter. Ibis 4 5(xx): 605 [Date published Oct 1881] [605] [unjustified emendation of Cinclosoma castaneothorax Gould, 1849].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Channel Country (CHC), Mulga Lands (ML)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Casuarina-cypress woodland, mulga woodland.

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. (Chestnut-breasted Quail-thrush)

History of changes

Distribution

States

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

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA: Burt Plain (BRT), Channel Country (CHC), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Murchison (MUR), Nullarbor (NUL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Tanami (TAN)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Bulloo River basin, Lake Eyre basin
  • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin
  • Queensland: Lake Eyre basin
  • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, S Gulfs, W plateau
  • Western Australia: W plateau

Ecological Descriptors

Bare stony plain, chenopodiaceous steppe, sand-plain 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. (Cinnamon Quail-thrush)

History of changes

• Cinclosoma cinnamomeum Gould, J. 1846. Untitled. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1846(14): 67-71 [Date published Oct 1846] [68] [originally spelled cinnamomeus, an adjective — gender corrected accordingly].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1846.5.22.87 adult ♂, NSW: The Depot, near Milparinka.
• Samuela cinnamomea samueli 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] [60].
• Samuela cinnamomea todmordeni Mathews, G.M. 1923. Additions and Corrections to my Lists of the Birds of Australia. Austral Avian Records 5: 33-44 [Date published 21 Feb 1923] [35].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA: Burt Plain (BRT), Channel Country (CHC), Central Ranges (CR), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Kanmantoo (KAN), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Nullarbor (NUL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Bulloo River basin, Lake Eyre basin
  • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin
  • Queensland: Lake Eyre basin
  • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, S Gulfs, W plateau

Ecological Descriptors

Bare stony plain, chenopodiaceous steppe, sand-plain hummock grassfield.

History of changes

• Cinclosoma (Samuela) cinnamomeum tirariensis 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. [424].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANWC 40136 adult ♂, SA: Innaminka Track, 40 road km east of Birdsville Track junction.
  Paratype(s) SAMA B.25468 adult ♀, SA: Clayton Bore, Birdsville Track.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia

IBRA

NT, Qld, SA: Burt Plain (BRT), Channel Country (CHC), Finke (FIN), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin
  • Queensland: Lake Eyre basin
  • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin

Ecological Descriptors

Bare stony plain, chenopodiaceous steppe, sand-plain hummock grassfield.

History of changes

• Cinclosoma marginatum Sharpe, R.B. 1883. Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or Perching Birds in the collection of the British Museum. Cichlomorphae. Part 4. Containing the concluding portion of the Family Timeliidae (Babbling-Thrushes). London : British Museum Vol. 7 xvi + 698 pp. [336].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 1856.12.24 adult ♂, WA: Mount Kenneth; BMNH adult ♀ (type locality restricted by Condon (1962)), WA: Mount Kenneth.

  Type locality references:

  Condon, H.T. 1962. Australian quail-thrushes of the genus Cinclosoma. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 14: 337-370 [364] (Type locality restricted to Mt Kenneth, WA).
• Cinclosoma castaneothorax nea Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [331].

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA

NT, SA, WA: Carnarvon (CAR), Central Ranges (CR), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Murchison (MUR), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Yalgoo (YAL)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Casuarina-cypress woodland, mulga woodland.

History of changes