Subspecies Cacatua (Licmetis) sanguinea gymnopis Sclater, 1871

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cacatua gymnopis Sclater, P.L. 1871. Notes on rare or little-known animals now or lately living in the Society's Gardens. Part II, Birds. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1871: 489-496 [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. Waterhouse, F.H. 1885. The Dates of Publication of some of the Zoological Works of the late John Gould, F.R.S. London : R.H. Porter xi 59 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. 1919. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 7 pt 5 pp. 385–499 + xii pls 363–370 Appendixes A & B (Appendix B)]] [493] [based on a single live bird in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London, since lost; the two specimens cited in the original description from Depot Creek, Milparinka, taken on Charles Sturt's expedition to the interior of South Australia in 1844–1846, are to be treated as paratypes: they are held in BMNH, but not catalogued as types, 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 (128); cf. 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 whereabouts unknown (lost, ex Menagerie of Zoological Society of London, figured on Fig. 4 in Sclater, P.L. 1871. Notes on rare or little-known animals now or lately living in the Society's Gardens. Part II, Birds. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1871: 489–496 [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. Waterhouse, F.H. 1885. The Dates of Publication of some of the Zoological Works of the late John Gould, F.R.S. London : R.H. Porter xi 59 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. 1919. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 7 pt 5 pp. 385–499 + xii pls 363–370 Appendixes A & B (Appendix B)]]), interior of South Australia (as South Australia).
  Paratype(s) BMNH (no. unspecified, Capt. Sturt coll.); BMNH (no. unspecified, Capt. Sturt coll.).

  Type locality references:

  Sclater, P.L. 1871. Notes on rare or little-known animals now or lately living in the Society's Gardens. Part II, Birds. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1871: 489-496 [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. Waterhouse, F.H. 1885. The Dates of Publication of some of the Zoological Works of the late John Gould, F.R.S. London : R.H. Porter xi 59 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. 1919. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 7 pt 5 pp. 385–499 + xii pls 363–370 Appendixes A & B (Appendix B)]] (cf. Mathews, G.M. 1917. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 6 pt 2 pp. 105–216 pls 283–290 [6 Feb. 1917 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.] [209–212]; cf. Macdonald, J.D. 1974. Name of southern subspecies of Little Corella. Emu 74: 195 [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.]; McAllan, I.A.W. 1988. Remarks on the type-locality of Cacatoes sanguinea ashbyi Mathews, 1912. Australian Birds 21: 69–71 [Duncan, F.M. 1937. On the dates of publication of the Society's 'Proceedings', 1859–1926. With an appendix containing the dates of publication of 'Proceedings', 1830–1858, compiled by the late F.H. Waterhouse, and of the 'Transactions', 1833–1869, by the late Henry Peavot, originally published in P.Z.S. 1893, 1913. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 107: 71–84]).
• Cacatoes sanguinea ashbyi Mathews, G.M. 1912. Additions and corrections to my Reference List to the Birds of Australia. Austral Avian Records 1(2): 25-52 [Date published 2 Apr 1912] [36] [published anonymously—authorship credited in Austral. Avian. Rec. 1: 65; holotype(?) figured as bottom figure on pl. 289 and described in detail on p. 199 in Mathews, G.M. 1917. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 6 pt 2 pp. 105–216 pls 283–290 [6 Feb. 1917 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 data:

   Holotype AMNH 619807 ♂ adult (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. 999), Yanco Glen, north of Broken Hill, NSW (as New South Wales)
  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., 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 [136] (cf. 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.; Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia Pt 1 Non-passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp.; 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; McAllan, I.A.W. 1988. Remarks on the type-locality of Cacatoes sanguinea ashbyi Mathews, 1912. Australian Birds 21: 69–71 [Duncan, F.M. 1937. On the dates of publication of the Society's 'Proceedings', 1859–1926. With an appendix containing the dates of publication of 'Proceedings', 1830–1858, compiled by the late F.H. Waterhouse, and of the 'Transactions', 1833–1869, by the late Henry Peavot, originally published in P.Z.S. 1893, 1913. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 107: 71–84]).

 

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. [96]

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Disjunct in two widespread populations in arid coastal-subcoastal west and arid inland E Australia—western population throughout Pilbara, WA, north to southern fringes of Great Sandy Desert (Port Hedland-Rudall River), east to western fringes of Gibson Desert, Lake Carnegie and Lake Barlee, formerly south to the Murchison River during earlier settlement, and now spreading south almost to the northern catchments of the Swan-Avon River, WA, (Moora-Jurien)—eastern population centred in Lake Eyre, Bulloo and W Murray-Darling basins, north to the Barkly Tableland, Selwyn Range, and headwaters of the SE Gulf of Carpentaria drainage (Richmond-Hughenden-Prairie), QLD, east to the westernmost outliers of the Great Dividing Range, sporadically reaching the Burdekin-Suttor and Dawson-Mackenzie Rivers catchments, Darling Downs and even coast in central and SE QLD, and Riverina, NSW, spreading south since 1960s into central and NE VIC north of the Great Dividing Range and adjacent mallee lands of SA as far as the South-East of SA, and west to the Mt Lofty-Flinders Ranges, SA, the west catchments of Lakes Eyre and Torrens and around the fringes of the Strzelecki and Simpson Deserts to east margins of Sandover Desert, NT, and now becoming established on upper Eyre Peninsula and Kangaroo Is., SA. Probably introduced populations established at mouth of Gawler River, SA, since 1940–50s, and on NSW central and NE coast and around metropolitan Sydney and Perth since 1960s, rare visitor to TAS midlands. Probably intergrades with C. s. normantoni (Mathews, 1917) at northern limits around south-eastern head of Gulf of Carpentaria—but evidence lacking.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), 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), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Plains (GUP), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), 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), 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), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

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

Ecological Descriptors

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

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, feeds communally on the ground on seeds including cereals, flocks in small to huge groups, flies with regular wing beats and frequent gliding, nests in tree hollows lined with wood debris, both parents incubate and feed yellow-downed chicks, wanders locally or regionally to food sources.

 

General References

Beardsell, C.M. & Emison, W.B. 1985. The Little Corella in the South-East of South Australia. South Australian Ornithologist 29: 206-207 (distribution)

Boehm, E.F. 1960. Little Corella in southern South Australia. The Emu 60: 67-68 [publication date Mathews, G.M. 1920. Dates of ornithological works. Austral Avian Records 4: 1–27 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)] (distribution, status)

Macdonald, J.D. 1974. Name of southern subspecies of Little Corella. The Emu 74: 195 [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.] (typification)

Parker, S.A. 1970. Critical notes on the status of some Northern Territory birds. South Australian Ornithologist 25: 115-125 [Duncan, F.M. 1937. On the dates of publication of the Society's 'Proceedings', 1859–1926. With an appendix containing the dates of publication of 'Proceedings', 1830–1858, compiled by the late F.H. Waterhouse, and of the 'Transactions', 1833–1869, by the late Henry Peavot, originally published in P.Z.S. 1893, 1913. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 107: 71–84] (centralian distribution)

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 (geographical variation, range, systematics, nomenclature)

 

History of changes

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