Species Cacatua (Licmetis) tenuirostris (Kuhl, 1820)

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• Psittacus tenuirostris Kuhl, H. 1820. Conspectus Psittacorum. Cum specierum definitionibus, novarum descriptionibus, synonymis et circa patriam singularum naturalem adversariis, adjecto indice museorum, ubi earum artificiosae exuviae servantur. Nova Acta Physico-Medica Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae 10: 1-104 pls I-III [88] [syntypes probably from Robert Brown's material collected under Matthew Flinders on the voyage of the Investigator at Port Phillip in 1802, and probably include the holotype of Psittacus nasicus Temminck, 1821, see Whittell, H.M. 1954. The Literature of Australian Birds: a History and Bibliography of Australian Ornithology. Perth : Paterson Brokensha xi 116 788 pp. (Pt 1, 53): 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.] (215); the bulk of the specimens collected by Brown were deposited in the collections of the British Museum and Linnean Society of London which both Kuhl and Temminck examined, see 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. (404)].

  Type data:

   Neotype ANWC 37645
  Comment: under Plenary Powers a neotype designated (ICZN 2012: Opinion 2293).

  Subsequent designation references:

  ICZN 2012. Opinion 2293 (Case 3482) Psittacus tenuirostris Kuhl, 1820 and Licmeris pastinator Gould, 1841 (currently Cacatua tenuirostris and Cacatua pastinator; Aves, Psittaciformes): usage conserved by designation of a neotype for Psittacus tenuirostris Kuhl, 1820. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 69(1): 75-76 [75].

  Type locality references:

  Dickison, D. 1928. Type locality of the Corella. The Emu 28: 82 [publication date Mathews, G.M. 1920. Dates of ornithological works. Austral Avian Records 4: 1–27 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.] (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 [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]; 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.] [215]).
• Psittacus nasicus Temminck, C.J. 1821. Account of some new species of birds of the genera Psittacus and Columba, in the Museum of the Linnean Society. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 13: 107-130 [publication dated as 1822] [115] [holotype probably based on one of the syntypes of Psittacus tenuirostris Kuhl, 1820 (q.v.), having been described from Robert Brown's material collected at Port Phillip Bay in 1802 which was examined by both Kuhl and Temminck, see Whittell, H.M. 1954. The Literature of Australian Birds: a History and Bibliography of Australian Ornithology. Perth : Paterson Brokensha xi 116 788 pp. (Pt 1, 53); 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. (135); c.f. 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.] (215)].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1863.7.6.3 adult, Port Phillip Bay, VIC (as Port Phillip à la côte sud de la Nouvelle Hollande)
  Comment: for identification of holotype, 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 (134); 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.

 

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. [97] (based on 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 [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] and Schodde, R. 1984. Taxonomic status of Long-billed Corellas in the southern Riverina. Australian Birds 19: 7–8)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Plains of W VIC, south to coast, east to Port Phillip Bay (Carrum, Mornington Peninsula), north to Great Dividing Range, Victorian Pyrenees, Grampians and lower Wimmera, and west to the South-East of SA west to Lacepede Bay and north to the Tatiara—also central Murray River system, VIC-NSW, east to Cobram and Shepparton and now spreading sporadically north-east through Riverina, NSW to west slopes of Great Dividing Range, north to the lower Murrumbidgee River (and formerly Lachlan River), NSW, west to about Robinvale (rarely Mildura), VIC, and sporadically south through northcentral VIC towards western VIC population—apparently rare visitor to TAS. Introduced and locally established in S Mt Lofty Range and at mouth of Gawler River, SA, and around Sydney and Brisbane—records from Darling River drainage (e.g., Byrock) are unconfirmed.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), 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)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria

Ecological Descriptors

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

Extra Ecological Information

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

 

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 and subspecific limits)

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

Emison, W.B., Dugueschlin, P.B. & Temby, I.D. 1982. Management of the Long-billed Corella. pp. 248-254 in Thane Riney (ed.). Wildlife Management in the 80's. Melbourne : Graduate School of Environmental Science, Monash University 346 pp. [publication dated as 1981 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.] (distribution, feeding biology, breeding, dynamics of status)

Emison, W.B. & Beardsell, C.M. 1985. Distribution of the Long-billed Corella in South Australia. South Australian Ornithologist 29: 197-205 (distribution, status, diet)

Emison, W.B. & Temby, I.D. 1987. Data exchange-weights and measurements - Long-billed Corella. Corella 11: 27 (morphology)

Ford, J. 1985. Species limits and phylogenetic relationships in corellas of the Cacatua pastinator complex. The Emu 85: 163-180 (synonymy)

Forshaw, J.M. 1981. Australian Parrots. 2nd (revised) Edn. Illustrated by W.T. Cooper. Melbourne : Lansdowne Edns 312 pp. 56 pls. (synonymy)

Jarman, H. 1979. The corellas in Victoria and the Riverina, NSW. Australian Bird Watcher 8(4): 103-117 [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.] (distribution, dynamics of status)

Lendon, A.H. 1970. The breeding of the Corella (Long-billed or Slender-billed Cockatoo). Aviculture Magazine 76: 236-238 [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.] (breeding, in captivity)

Mees, G.F. 1961. An annotated catalogue of a collection of bird-skins from West Pilbara, Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 44: 97-143 (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Peters, J.L. 1937. Check-list of Birds of the World. Cambridge : Harvard University Press Vol. 3 xiii 311 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Peters, J.L. 1937. Check-list of Birds of the World. Cambridge : Harvard University Press Vol. 3 xiii 311 pp. (synonymy and subspecific limits)

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. (synonymy and specific limits)

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 (distribution)

Temby, I.D. & Emison, W.B. 1986. Foods of the Long-billed Corella. Australian Wildlife Research 13: 57-63 [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.] (diet)

Wolters, H.E. 1975. Die Vogelarten der Erde. Eine systematische Liste mit Verbreitungsangaben sowie deutschen und englischen Namen. Hamburg : Paul Parey Lief. 1, 1-80 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
29-Feb-2012		29-Feb-2012	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)