Subspecies Cacomantis (Vidgenia) castaneiventris castaneiventris (Gould, 1867)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cuculus castaneiventris Gould, J. 1867. On two new birds from eastern Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3 20: 269-270 [published Oct.] [269] [as Cuculus (Cacomantis) castaneiventris, with type unspecified; published almost simultaneously in Gould, J. 1869. The Birds of Australia. Supplement. London : J. Gould 81 pls pp. [Pt 3, 1859] (text to pl. 55), the single specimen figured there being part of the type 'series' and probably the holotype—collected by J. Jardine, that specimen came from the region of Somerset, Cape York Peninsula, cf. Whittell, H.M. 1954. The Literature of Australian Birds: a History and Bibliography of Australian Ornithology. Perth : Paterson Brokensha xi 116 788 pp.].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1881.5.1.6315 unsexed adult, Somerset, Cape York Peninsula, QLD (as Cape-York district of Queensland, eastern Australia)
  Comment: for identification of type material, see Shelley, G.E. 1891. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Picariae-Cuculidae. London : British Museum Vol. 19 xii 484 pp. 13 pls; 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 locality references:

  Mason, I.J. 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. [234] (cf. Shelley, G.E. 1891. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Picariae-Cuculidae. London : British Museum Vol. 19 xii 484 pp. 13 pls; 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.).
• Vidgenia yorki Mathews, G.M. 1922. Additions and corrections. Austral Avian Records 5: 1-9 [4] [based on an immature male; published without description but based by reference on a previously published description, and available under ICZN Art. 12(b)(1): first described in Mathews, G.M. 1918. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 7 pt 4 xii 499 pp. pls 325–499 [19 Dec. 1918] (329); for identification of holotype, see Hartert, E. 1925. Review of the genus Cacomantis Müll. Novitates Zoologicae 32: 164–174, cf. 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 (where omitted); holotype figured on pl. 366 (upper figure) in Mathews, G.M. 1918. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 7 pt 4 xii 499 pp. pls 325–499 [19 Dec. 1918]].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH no. unspecified ♂ imm. (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. unspecified), Cape York, QLD.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Peters, J.L. 1940. Check-list of Birds of the World. Cambridge : Harvard University Press Vol. 4 xii 291 pp. [26]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

NE Cape York Peninsula between Jardine River in north and Bloomfield River in south—also Booby Is. in Torres Strait and ?Aru Ils.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal, Torres Strait Islands
• Indonesia
  • Aru Islands

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, arthropod-feeder, closed forest, diurnal, sedentary, tall forest, territorial, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

(randomly dispersed), seasonal breeder, solitary or in pairs, feeds by perch-and-pounce sallying in low shrubbery and forest understorey, and at times on the forest floor, taking caterpillars, beetles and grasshoppers, brood parasite parasitizing mainly Sericornis beccarii Salvadori, 1874 in Australia (G. Beruldsen, pers. comm.).

 

General References

Blakers, M., Davies, S.J.J.F. & Reilly, P.N. 1984. The Atlas of Australian Birds. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press/Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xlvi 738 pp. (distribution, including unconfirmed records)

Coates, B.J. 1985. The Birds of Papua New Guinea, including the Bismarck Archipelago and Bougainville. Non-Passerines. Alderley, Qld : Dove Publications Vol. 1 464 pp. 493 pls. (morphology, voice)

Draffan, R.D.W., Garnett, S.T. & Malone, S.J. 1983. Birds of the Torres Strait: an annotated list and biogeographical analysis. The Emu 83: 207-234 (unconfirmed distribution)

MacGillivray, W. 1918. Ornithologists in North Queensland. The Emu 17: 63-87, 145-148, 180-212 [published between 1917–1918] (behaviour, habitat)

Mathews, G.M. 1919. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 7 pts 1-5 499 +xii pp. pls 325-370. (morphology, distribution, habitat, nomenclature)

Officer, H.R. 1967. In the footsteps of McLennan and Barnard at Cape York. The Emu 66: 279-287 (behaviour)

Rothschild, W. & Hartert, E. 1907. Notes on Papuan birds. Novitates Zoologicae 14: 433-446 (distribution)

 

History of changes

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