Subspecies Cacatua (Licmetis) pastinator derbyi Mathews, 1916

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• Licmetis tenuirostris derbyi 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] [holotype examined and identifiable with that form of the Western Corella that occurs in the northern wheat-belt of southwest Australia: this conclusion is self-evident from measurements given by 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 and from pl. 62 of the holotype in Mathews, G.M. 1936. A Supplement to the Birds of Norfolk & Lord Howe Islands to which is added those Birds of New Zealand not figured by Buller. London : H.F. & G. Witherby xiv 177 pp. pls 46–102, pace Mayr, E. in Whittell, H.M. & Serventy, D.L. 1948. A Systematic List of the Birds of Western Australia. Perth : Public Library Museum and Art Gallery of West. Aust. Spec. Publ. Vol. 1 vi 126 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) (cf. 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.)] (48, footnote); this form occurs nowhere near the given type locality, Derby, as the type appears to have been taken by J.T. Tunney (judged from original labelling) who also collected in the northern WA wheat-belt, it is likely that the pencilled locality annotation of 'Derby' on the type specimen is an error—accordingly, the type locality is amended here].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 619812 unsexed adult (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. unspecified), northern wheatbelt, WA (as Derby, North-west 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. [93].
• Cacatua pastinator butleri Ford, J. 1987. New subspecies of Grey Shrike-thrush and Long-billed Corella from Western Australia. Western Australian Naturalist 16: 172-176 [173].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM A16996 ♂ adult, 25 km east of Coorow, WA.
  Paratype(s) WAM A6434; WAM A7127; WAM A8407; WAM A16393; WAM A16974–8; WAM A16980; WAM A6944–5; WAM A16986; WAM A16988–95; WAM A16997–17001; WAM A17010–24; WAM A17030–43; WAM A17050–2; ANWC 36253; ANWC 36255–6; ANWC 36258–9; ANWC 36269–70; ANWC 36261; ANWC 36301–2; ANWC 36284; ANWC 36316–8; ANWC 36401–4; ANWC 18098–9; ANWC 36179–84; ANWC 36189–91; ANWC 36194–6; ANWC 36215; ANWC 36218.

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. [93]

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Northern wheat-belt of SW Australia, between Geraldton, Jurien Bay, Moora, Wongan Hills, Jibberding, Muckinbudin, Morawa and Mullewa.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Carnarvon (CAR), Esperance Plains (ESP), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Murchison (MUR), Pilbara (PIL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Western Australia: NW coastal, SW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, diurnal, granivore, gregarious, low open woodland, low woodland, nomadic, root-feeder, sedentary, terrestrial, tussock grassland, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, in Eucalyptus wandoo-E. salmonophloia woodland, feeds communally on the ground digging for seeds and bulbs, including those of the introduced Onion Grass (Romulea rosea) and cereals, flies with regular wing beats and frequent gliding, flocks in small to large groups, nests in tree hollows lined with wood debris, both parents incubate and feed yellow-downed chicks, wanders locally to food sources.

General References

Saunders, D.A. 1977. Breeding of the Long-billed Corella at Coomallo Creek, WA. The Emu 77: 223-227 [publication date 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)] (nidification)

Schodde, R., Smith, G.T., Mason, I.J. & Weatherly, R.G. 1979. Relationships and speciation in the Australian corellas (Psittacidae). Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 99: 128-137 (ecology of distribution)

Serventy, D.L. & Whittell, H.M. 1976. Birds of Western Australia. Perth : University Western Australia Press x (un-numbered) 481 pp. (nidification)

Smith, G.T. 1991. Breeding ecology of the western Long-billed Corella, Cacatua pastinator pastinator. Australian Wildlife Research 18: 91-110 [Sclater, P.L. 1893. List of the dates of delivery of the sheets of the "Proceedings" of the Zoological Society of London, from the commencement in 1830 to 1859 inclusive. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1893: 435–440] (breeding ecology, general biology, distribution)

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