Family CORACIIDAE


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R. Schodde & I.J. Mason, CSIRO Australian National Wildlife Collection, Canberra, Australia

Introduction

Coraciidae (true rollers) comprise about 11–13 species in two genera; one species occurs in Australia. There is as yet no fossil record for Australia. Like Meropidae, rollers are centred in the Palaeotropics, from Africa through southern Eurasia to Indonesia.

Rollers are perching birds that are usually rather solitary and fly acrobatically from high exposed perches in wide sweeps and convolutions both in display and to capture insects and other small animals on wing (Eurystomus Vieillot, 1816) or often from ground (Coracias Linnaeus, 1758). Nests are in unlined holes in trees and banks; eggs are plain-white and ovoid; and young are altricial, nidicolous, and become spiny because developing feathers long retain their horny sheaths; nidificational duties are shared by both sexes.

Family-group Systematics

Although at times combined with the closely allied ground rollers, Brachyteraciidae Bonaparte, 1854, and Madagascan cuckoo-roller, Leptosomidae Blyth, 1838 (e.g. Sharpe 1892; Peters 1945; Mayr & Amadon 1951), the true rollers (Coraciidae Rafinesque, 1815) are separated at family level here, following Cracraft (1971). This arrangement is supported by Stresemann (1927–1934), Wetmore (1960), Wolters (1975–1982), Maurer & Raikow (1981), Burton (1984), Sibley et al. (1988) and Sibley & Ahlquist (1990). Even so, the status of these groups does not appear to be well settled.

Genus-group Systematics

Eurystomus Vieillot, 1816—Circumscription of aerial-feeding Eurystomus Vieillot, 1816, with three or four species, has been settled since Sharpe (1892). The validity and value of subgenera in so small and compact a group is uncertain, cf. Wolters (1975–1982); they are not used here.

Species-group Systematics

Eurystomus orientalis (Linnaeus, 1766)—Specific limits have been clarified by the revisions of Stresemann (1913), Boetticher (1936), Ripley (1942), Mees (1965) and Scholtes in White & Bruce (1986); but the status of subspecies in the Indonesian archipelagos is not so settled. Australian E. o. pacificus (Latham, 1802), nevertheless, is distinct in its pallid toning, disproportionally short tail and rather more pointed wings adapted for migration.

 

Excluded Taxa

Vagrant Species

CAVS:8082
CORACIIDAE: Coracias garrulus Linnaeus, 1758 [European Roller]

 

Diagnosis

Stout, medium-sized, blue-, green- and sometimes chestnut-tinted birds with broad heads, tapering to blunt tails, and thick slightly hooked bills with slit-like nostrils; body feathering rather coarse, in defined tracts; aftershafts moderately developed; uropygial gland naked, flattened. Feet small, anisodactylous; short tarsi coarsely scutellate on acrotarsia, and all three forward toes basally syndactylous to first joint. Sexes alike. Wings rounded but long: 10 primaries plus remicle, moulting in unconfirmed sequence, and 12 diastataxic secondaries; tail short: 12 rectrices, moulting in unconfirmed sequence. Nares holorhinal/amphirhinal, impervious, nasal septum imperforate; desmognathous palate heavily braced for crushing, with very narrow vomer, long broadly round-winged palatines, and lachrymals greatly expanded to reach small spur-like ectethmoids and jugal bars; basipterygoid processes rudimentary or absent; cervical vertebrae 13–14; sternum deeply two-notched on each side, only spina externa present, furcula without hypocleideum. Musculus expansor secundariorum fully developed but no biceps slip; pelvic muscle formula AXY, no M. ambiens, deep plantar tendons Type V and complexly fused. Carotid arteries paired. Syrinx tracheo-bronchial with one pair of intrinsic muscles. Tongue narrow without fringe at base; no crop; caeca present, elongated. Diploid karyotype of 70–90 chromosomes, with three to six pairs of macrochromosomes.

 

General References

Boetticher, H. von 1936. Rolliers et Eurystomes. Oiseau et la Revue Française d'Ornithologie 6: 422-434

Burton, P.J.K. 1984. Anatomy and evolution of the feeding apparatus in the avian orders Coraciiformes and Piciformes. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology 47: 331-443

Cracraft, J. 1971. The relationships and evolution of the rollers: families Coraciidae, Brachypteraciidae, and Leptosomatidae. Auk 88: 723-752

Dresser, H.E. 1893. A Monograph of the Coraciidae, or family of the Rollers. Farnborough : H.E. Dresser xx 111 pp. 27 pls.

Lowe, P.R. 1948. What are the Coraciiformes? Ibis 90: 572-582

Maurer, D.R. & Raikow, R.J. 1981. Appendicular myology, phylogeny, and classification of the avian order Coraciiformes (including Trogoniformes). Annals of the Carnegie Museum 50: 417-434

Mayr, E. & Amadon, D. 1951. A classification of recent birds. American Museum Novitates 1496: 1-42

Mees, G.F. 1965. The avifauna of Misool. Nova Guinea (Zoologie) 31: 139-203

Peters, J.L. 1945. Check-list of Birds of the World. Cambridge : Harvard University Press Vol. 5 xi 306 pp.

Ripley, S.D. 1942. The species Eurystomus orientalis. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 55: 169-176

Sharpe, R.B. 1871. On the Coraciidae of the Ethiopian region. Ibis 3 1: 184-203, 270-289

Sharpe, R.B. 1892. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Picariae. Coraciae (contin.) and Halcyones. London : British Museum Vol. 17 xi 522 pp. XVII pls.

Sibley, C.G., Ahlquist, J.E. & Monroe, B.L., Jr 1988. A classification of living birds of the world based on DNA-DNA hybridization studies. Auk 105: 409-423

Sibley, C.G. & Ahlquist, J.E. 1990. Phylogeny and Classification of Birds. A Study in Molecular Evolution. New Haven : Yale University Press xxiii 976 pp.

Streseman, E. 1927. Sauropsida: Aves. pp. in Kükenthal, W. & Krumbach, Th. (eds). Handbuch der Zoologie. Eine Naturgeschichte der Stämme des Tiereiches. Berlin : W. de Gruyter Bd 7, Hft 2 xi 899 pp. [Date published 1927–1934]

Stresemann, E. 1913. Ornithologische Miszellen aus dem indo-australischen Gebiet. II Teil. Novitates Zoologicae 20: 289-324

Thiollay, J.-M. 1971. Les guêpiers et rolliers d'une zone de contact savane-forêt en Côte d'Ivoire. Oiseau et la Revue Française d'Ornithologie 41: 148-162

Wetmore, A. 1960. A classification for the birds of the world. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 139(11): 1-37

White, C.M.N. & Bruce, M.D. 1986. The Birds of Wallacea (Sulawesi, the Moluccas & Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia). An annotated check-list. B.O.U. Check-list No. 7. London : British Ornithologists' Union 524 pp.

Wolters, H.E. 1975–1982. Die Vogelarten der Erde. Eine systematische Liste mit Verbreitungsangaben sowie deutschen und englischen Namen. Hamburg : Paul Parey xx 745 pp.

 

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Genus Eurystomus Vieillot, 1816

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Distribution

States

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


Extra Distribution Information

Southern Palaearctic and palaeotropics, from Africa and India to Manchuria and Korea, the Greater and Lesser Sundas, and all Papuasia; accidental in New Zealand.


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

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), 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), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Oriental Region

Distribution References

General References

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

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. (synonymy)

Sharpe, R.B. 1892. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Picariae. Coraciae (contin.) and Halcyones. London : British Museum Vol. 17 xi 522 pp. XVII pls. (synonymy)

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

Wolters, H.E. 1976. Die Vogelarten der Erde. Eine systematische Liste mit Verbreitungsangaben sowie deutschen und englischen Namen. Hamburg : Paul Parey pp. Lief. 2, 81-160. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement proposing subgenera)

 

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Species Eurystomus orientalis (Linnaeus, 1766)

CAVS: 0318

Dollarbird

Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

 

Distribution

States

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


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

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), 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), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Oriental Region

Details of nominate subspecies, not present in Australia

Coracias orientalis Linnaeus, C. 1766. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio duodecima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 1327 & 36 pp. [159] [based on Le Rollier des Indes Galgulus indicus in Brisson, M.-J. 1760. Ornithologie ou méthode contenant la Division des oiseaux en Ordres, Sectiones, Genres, Espèces & leurs Variétés. Paris : J.-B. Bauche Vol. V 298-310 pp. (75); holotype figured on pl. VII, fig. 2 in Brisson, M.-J. 1760. Ornithologie ou méthode contenant la Division des oiseaux en Ordres, Sectiones, Genres, Espèces & leurs Variétés. Paris : J.-B. Bauche Vol. V 298-310 pp. and on pl. 619 of Daubenton, E.L. 1781. Planches Enluminées d'Histoire Naturelle. In Buffon, G.L. (1770–1786). Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux. Paris : l'Imprimerie Royale Vols I–X. [published between as 1765-1781 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.] (Vol. III, p. 160), as Rolle des Indes ex W.G. Graaf Bentinck collection-but specimen since destroyed, see Stresemann, E. 1952. On the birds collected by Pierre Poivre in Canton, Manila, India and Madagascar (1751–1756). Ibis 94: 499–523 [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. Zimmer, J.T. 1926. Catalogue of the Edward E. Ayer Ornithological Library. Field Museum of Natural History Publications, Zoological Series 16: 1–364 (Pt 1, Publ. 239), 365–706 (Pt 2, Publ. 240) 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]]; name applied to southeast Asian subspecies with type locality Java by most revisers following Stresemann, E. 1913. Ornithologische Miszellen aus dem indo-australischen Gebiet. II Teil. Novitates Zoologicae 20: 289–324, also Mees, G.F. 1965. The avifauna of Misool. Nova Guinea, Zoology 31: 139–203 [Fletcher, J.J. 1896. On the dates of publication of the early volumes of the Society's proceedings. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 10: 533–536], and White, C.M.N. & Bruce, M.D. 1986. The Birds of Wallacea (Sulawesi, the Moluccas & Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia). An annotated check-list. B.O.U. Check-list No. 7. London : British Ornithologists' Union 524 pp. [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. 1913. Notes on Billberg's Synopsis Faunae Scandinaviae. Austral Avian Records 2: 33–48], cf. Stresemann (1952 above), who concludes that the type locality is Ambon-type locality confirmed as Java by decision of the Standing Committee on Ornithological Nomenclature, International Ornithological Committee, Christchurch, NZ 1990].

Type data: holotype MNHP (ex W.G. Graaf Bentinck coll. per Réaumur Museum, destroyed, figured in Brisson, M.-J. 1760. Ornithologie ou méthode contenant la Division des oiseaux en Ordres, Sectiones, Genres, Espèces & leurs Variétés. Paris : J.-B. Bauche Vol. V 298-310 pp., figured on pl. 619 in Daubenton, E.L. 1781. Planches Enluminées d'Histoire Naturelle. In Buffon, G.L. (1770–1786). Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux. Paris : l'Imprimerie Royale Vols I–X. [published between as 1765-1781 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.]).
Type locality: Java (as India orientali ex Brisson).

 

General References

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)

Mees, G.F. 1965. The avifauna of Misool. Nova Guinea (Zoologie) 31: 139-203 (subspecific arrangement and specific limits)

Peters, J.L. 1945. Check-list of Birds of the World. Cambridge : Harvard University Press Vol. 5 xi 306 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Ripley, S.D. 1942. The species Eurystomus orientalis. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 55: 169-176 (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Sharpe, R.B. 1892. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Picariae. Coraciae (contin.) and Halcyones. London : British Museum Vol. 17 xi 522 pp. XVII 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. (subspecific arrangement and specific limits)

Stresemann, E. 1913. Ornithologische Miszellen aus dem indo-australischen Gebiet. II Teil. Novitates Zoologicae 20: 289-324 (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Wolters, H.E. 1976. Die Vogelarten der Erde. Eine systematische Liste mit Verbreitungsangaben sowie deutschen und englischen Namen. Hamburg : Paul Parey pp. Lief. 2, 81-160. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

 

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Subspecies Eurystomus orientalis calonyx Sharpe, 1980

CAVS: 9905

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Sight record of itinerant individual in late January-early February 1963 by Pearson, A.J. 1966. The birds of Christmas Island (Indian Ocean). Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 86: 66–71 [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. 1919. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 7 pt 5 pp. 385–499 + xii pls 363–370 Appendixes A & B (Appendix B)]. Although both east Asian-breeding E. o. calonyx Sharpe, 1890 and Australian-breeding E. o. pacificus (Latham, 1802) might be expected to reach Christmas Is. on migration, the time of the record makes calonyx much more likely. Alternatively, the record could have been of a wind-blown individual of the resident Greater Sundan form, E. o. orientlais (Linnaeus, 1766), cf. Peters, J.L. 1945. Check-list of Birds of the World. Cambridge : Harvard University Press Vol. 5 xi 306 pp.; White, C.M.N. & Bruce, M.D. 1986. The Birds of Wallacea (Sulawesi, the Moluccas & Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia). An annotated check-list. B.O.U. Check-list No. 7. London : British Ornithologists' Union 524 pp. [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. 1913. Notes on Billberg's Synopsis Faunae Scandinaviae. Austral Avian Records 2: 33–48].


Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Oriental Region

Distribution References

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Subspecies Eurystomus orientalis pacificus (Latham, 1801)

CAVS: 8967

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Distribution

States

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


Extra Distribution Information

Throughout N and E Australia inland to northern fringes of Great Sandy Desert, WA, Barkly Tableland, NT, Selwyn Range, headwaters of the Diamantina, Thomson and Bulloo Rivers, QLD, and the Murray-Darling drainage at c. 144ºE as far S as N VIC inland of Great Dividing Range—also main offshore islands (including Melville-Bathurst, Groote Eylandt, all Torres Strait islands, islands of Great Barrier Reef, Fraser and Stradbroke)—accidental or erratic further south to the Pilbara, WA, and to Norfolk Is., Lord Howe Is., S VIC, TAS, the Mt Lofty-Flinders Ranges, SA, and Kangaroo Is.


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

NSW, NT, Qld, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), 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), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Ecological Descriptors

Aerial, arboreal, arthropod-feeder, crepuscular, diurnal, low open woodland, low woodland, migratory, open forest, predator, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Randomly dispersed, seasonal breeder, aerial arthropod-feeder, flies in wide circling evolutions over tree tops, perches on high bare exposed branches, nests in shallow tree hollows, breeding summer migrant, winters north to New Guinea, Moluccas, Lesser Sundas and Sulawesi, and locally in NE QLD.

 

General References

Blackman, J.G. & Locke, D.K. 1978. Nocturnal flying height of a Dollarbird. The Emu 78: 163 (behaviour)

Christensen, V. 1954. Dates of arrival of three bird species. The Emu 54: 72-73 (movements)

Hyett, J. 1966. Dollar-birds nesting in southern Victoria. The Emu 66: 123-131 (nidification)

Lord, C.E. 1918. On the occurrence of the Australian Roller (Eurystomus pacificus) in Tasmania. The Emu 18: 136 (Tasmanian record)

Mees, G.F. 1982. Birds from the lowlands of southern New Guinea (Merauke and Koembe). Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 191: 1-188 4 pls (winter quarters)

North, A.J. 1909. Nests and Eggs of Birds Found Breeding in Australia and Tasmania. Sydney : Australian Museum Spec. Cat. 1 Vol. 2 vii 380 pp. [published between 1906–1909] (distribution, movements, behaviour, nidification)

Schodde, R., Van Tets, G.F., Champion, C.R. & Hope, G.S. 1975. Observations on birds at glacial altitudes on the Carstensz Massif, western New Guinea. The Emu 75: 65-72 [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)] (winter quarters)

Van Tets, G.F. 1965. Parental feeding of fledgling Dollar-bird. The Emu 65: 79 (behaviour, nidification)

White, C.M.N. & Bruce, M.D. 1986. The Birds of Wallacea (Sulawesi, the Moluccas & Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia). An annotated check-list. B.O.U. Check-list No. 7. London : British Ornithologists' Union 524 pp. (winter quarters)

 

History of changes

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