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Subspecies Cacomantis (Vidgenia) flabelliformis flabelliformis (Latham, 1801)

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Subspecies Cacomantis (Vidgenia) flabelliformis flabelliformis (Latham, 1801)

  • Cuculus flabelliformis Latham, J. 1801. Supplementum Indicis Ornithologici, sive Systematis Ornithologiae. London : G. Leigh, J. & S. Sotheby 74 pp. [30] [based on the Fan-tailed Cuckow in Latham, J. 1802. Supplement II. to the General Synopsis of Birds. London : Leigh, Sotheby & Son 376 pp. pls CXX–CXL [publication dated as 1801] (138), in turn based on Thomas Watling drawing no. 75 in BMNH, see Sharpe, R.B. 1906. Birds. pp. 79–515 in, The History of the Collections contained in the Natural History Departments of the British Museum. London : British Museum Vol. 2.; Hindwood, K.A. 1970. The "Watling" drawings, with incidental notes on the "Lambert" and the "Latham" drawings. Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 1968–69: 16–32 pls IV–VII; Mason, I.J. 1982. The identity of certain early Australian types referred to the Cuculidae. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 102: 99–106 [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.]; for application of name over Sylvia rubricata Latham, 1802 through action of first reviser (ICZN Art. 24), and for appraisal of relevant nomenclature, see Mason (1982) [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.]; cf. North, A.J. 1906. Remarks on the names of some Australian birds. Ibis 8 6: 53–57 [Mathews, G.M. & Iredale, T. 1915. On the ornithology of the Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles (Levrault). Austral Avian Records 3: 5–20 [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]]; Mathews, G.M. 1911. On some necessary alterations in the nomenclature of birds. Pt II. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 1–22 [For publication date Mathews, G.M. 1913. New generic names, with some notes on others. Austral Avian Records 2: 55–62]; Hartert, E. 1925. Review of the genus Cacomantis Müll. Novitates Zoologicae 32: 164–174; Hartert, E. 1926. Answer to the "Remarks on 'Review of the genus Cacomantis'". Novitates Zoologicae 33: 55–56; Amadon, D. 1942. Birds collected during the Whitney South Sea Expedition. L Notes on some non-passerine genera, 2. American Museum Novitates 1176: 1–21; identity of Thomas Watling drawing no. 75 questioned because its grey breast band is anomalous in this species—but this anomaly probably caused by turning of head of specimen being drawn through 360 deg., reversing part of mantle on to breast; specimen since lost with other specimens drawn by artists of Australian First Fleet settlement—because of its disputed identity, a neotype from the type locality is chosen here, with the approval of the RAOU Taxonomic Advisory Committee].
  • Sylvia rubricata Latham, J. 1801. Supplementum Indicis Ornithologici, sive Systematis Ornithologiae. London : G. Leigh, J. & S. Sotheby 74 pp. [55] [based on the Ruddy Warbler in Latham, J. 1802. Supplement II. to the General Synopsis of Birds. London : Leigh, Sotheby & Son 376 pp. pls CXX–CXL [publication dated as 1801] (249), in turn based on Thomas Watling drawings nos. 202 and 203 in BMNH, see Sharpe, R.B. 1906. Birds. pp. 79–515 in, The History of the Collections contained in the Natural History Departments of the British Museum. London : British Museum Vol. 2.; Mathews, G.M. 1911. On some necessary alterations in the nomenclature of birds. Pt II. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 1–22 [For publication date Mathews, G.M. 1913. New generic names, with some notes on others. Austral Avian Records 2: 55–62]; for application and juniority of name with respect to Cuculus flabelliformis Latham, 1802, and for appraisal of relevant nomenclature, see Mason, I.J. 1982. The identity of certain early Australian types referred to the Cuculidae. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 102: 99–106 [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.], cf. Mathews, G.M. 1911. On some necessary alterations in the nomenclature of birds. Pt II. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 1–22 [For publication date Mathews, G.M. 1913. New generic names, with some notes on others. Austral Avian Records 2: 55–62]; Mathews, G.M. 1912. Notes on Australian cuckoos. Austral Avian Records 1: 2–22; Hartert, E. 1925. Review of the genus Cacomantis Müll. Novitates Zoologicae 32: 164–174; Hartert, E. 1926. Answer to the "Remarks on 'Review of the genus Cacomantis'". Novitates Zoologicae 33: 55–56; although Thomas Watling drawing no. 202 is an unexceptionable figure of this species, drawing no. 203 represents Eopsaltria australis (Shaw, 1790), as pointed out by Sharpe, R.B. 1906. Birds. pp. 79–515 in, The History of the Collections contained in the Natural History Departments of the British Museum. London : British Museum Vol. 2., and may represent the type of Sylvia flavigastra Latham, 1802; to tie rubricata Latham, 1802 to the present species, the specimen represented by Watling drawing no. 202 is chosen here as lectotype; type locality restricted here to the central coast of NSW because that region was the source of material for the paintings of the Thomas Watling series, see Hindwood, K.A. 1970. The "Watling" drawings, with incidental notes on the "Lambert" and the "Latham" drawings. Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 1968–69: 16–32 pls IV–VII].
    Type data:
     Lectotype whereabouts unknown (lost, figured on Thomas Watling drawing no. 202 in BMNH), central coastal New South Wales (as Nova Hollandia).
    Paralectotype(s) whereabouts unknown (lost, figured on Thomas Watling drawing no. 203 in BMNH).
  • Cuculus rufulus Vieillot, L.P. 1817. Coucou. pp. 202–238 in Nouveau Dictionaire d'Histoire Naturelle, appliquée aux arts, à l'Agriculture, à l'Économie rurale et domestique, à la Médecine, etc. Par une Société de Naturalistes et d'Agriculteurs. Nouvelle Édition Paris : Déterville. [234] [for application of name and appraisal of relevant nomenclature, see Mason, I.J. 1982. The identity of certain early Australian types referred to the Cuculidae. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 102: 99–106 [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.]; also 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; North, A.J. 1906. Remarks on the names of some Australian birds. Ibis 8 6: 53–57 [Mathews, G.M. & Iredale, T. 1915. On the ornithology of the Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles (Levrault). Austral Avian Records 3: 5–20 [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]]; cf. Mathews, G.M. 1911. On some necessary alterations in the nomenclature of birds. Pt II. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 1–22 [For publication date Mathews, G.M. 1913. New generic names, with some notes on others. Austral Avian Records 2: 55–62]; Mathews, G.M. 1912. Notes on Australian cuckoos. Austral Avian Records 1: 2–22; Hartert, E. 1925. Review of the genus Cacomantis Müll. Novitates Zoologicae 32: 164–174; Hartert, E. 1926. Answer to the "Remarks on 'Review of the genus Cacomantis'". Novitates Zoologicae 33: 55–56; Amadon, D. 1942. Birds collected during the Whitney South Sea Expedition. L Notes on some non-passerine genera, 2. American Museum Novitates 1176: 1–21; because of the disputed identity of the two syntypes (originally in H. Baillon coll. and now evidently lost), a neotype is chosen here, with the approval of the RAOU Taxonomic Advisory Committee, to settle application of name].
    Type data:
     Neotype ANWC 14401 ♂ imm., c. 8 km northeast of Branxton, NSW (as Nouvelle-Hollande).
  • Cuculus prionurus Lichtenstein, H. 1823. Verzeichniss der Doubletten des zoologischen Museums der Königl. Universität zu Berlin nebst Beschreibung vieler bisher unbekannter Arten von Säugethieren, Vögelin, Amphibien und Fischen. Berlin : Königl. Universität x 118 pp. [9] [attributed to Illiger, ?ms.; also as incorrect subsequent spelling, prionulus by 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; type locality restricted to Sydney by Mathews, G.M. 1926. Remarks on 'Review of the genus Cacomantis'. Novitates Zoologicae 33: 53–54, but without evidence].
    Type data:
     Holotype ZMB, New South Wales (as Nov. Cambr. austr.)
    Comment: for identification of holotype, see Hartert, E. 1926. Answer to the "Remarks on 'Review of the genus Cacomantis'". Novitates Zoologicae 33: 55–56.
  • Cuculus cineraceus Vigors, N.A. & Horsfield, T. 1827. A description of the Australian birds in the collection of the Linnean Society; with an attempt at arranging them according to their natural affinities. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 15: 170-331 [Date published 17 Feb 1827: publication dated 1826] [298] [as Cineraceus; also as incorrect subsequent spelling, cinerascens by Gray, G.R. 1849. The Genera of Birds: comprising their generic characters, a notice of the habits of each genus, and an extensive list of species referred to their several genera. London : Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans 3 Vols 669 pp. CLXXXV pls [published between 1844–1849 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.] (p. 463 in Vol. 2 pp. iv 301–483, pls. LXX111–CXX, 1847); based both on material in Linnean Society of London coll. (now in BMNH), and on the Barred-tailed Cuckoo of Latham, J. 1822. A General History of Birds. Winchester : J. Latham Vol. III 416 pp. pls 38–59 (p. 310, no. 65)—latter name based on adults and immatures, two of which were in the possession of M. de Fichtel and are possibly now in NHMW, see von Pelzeln, A. 1873. On the birds in the Imperial Collection at Vienna obtained from the Leverian Museum. Ibis 3 3: 14–54; 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.—lectotype chosen from them here to fix the type locality].
    Type data:
     Lectotype BMNH 1863.7.7.60a ♂ adult, Parramatta, NSW (as 'Paramatta').
    Paralectotype(s) BMNH no. unspecified ♀ adult; NHMW unsexed (institution uncertain); NHMW unsexed (institution uncertain)
    Comment: for identification of syntypes in BMNH, 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;.
    Type locality references:
    Vigors, N.A. & Horsfield, T. 1827. A description of the Australian birds in the collection of the Linnean Society; with an attempt at arranging them according to their natural affinities. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 15: 170-331 [Date published 17 Feb 1827: publication dated 1826] [301] (cf. Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171–455 [publication dated Jan. 1912, published 31 Jan.]; Hartert, E. 1925. Review of the genus Cacomantis Müll. Novitates Zoologicae 32: 164–174; 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 BMNH 1863.7.7.61 unsexed, Parramatta, NSW (as Paramatta)
    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:
    Vigors, N.A. & Horsfield, T. 1827. A description of the Australian birds in the collection of the Linnean Society; with an attempt at arranging them according to their natural affinities. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 15: 170-331 [Date published 17 Feb 1827: publication dated 1826] [301] (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; Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171–455 [publication dated Jan. 1912, published 31 Jan.]; Hartert, E. 1925. Review of the genus Cacomantis Müll. Novitates Zoologicae 32: 164–174; 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.).
  • Cuculus rubricatus athertoni Mathews, G.M. 1912. Notes on Australian cuckoos. Austral Avian Records 1: 2-22 [11] [published anonymously, authorship credited in Austral. Avian Rec. 1: 65; although syntypes assumed 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, the original description quotes only one specimen as type, no. 9333 in G.M. Mathews' collection; this number, not cited by Greenway (loc. cit.), is presumed to belong to AMNH 626085 as quoted by Greenway].
    Type data:
     Holotype AMNH ?626085 ♂ (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. 9333), Barron River, north QLD (as Atherton, North Queensland.
    Type locality references:
    Hartert, E. 1925. Review of the genus Cacomantis Müll. Novitates Zoologicae 32: 164-174 (although 'Atherton' is quoted as type locality in the original description, 'Barron River' is given on the specimen label).
  • Cuculus rubricatus albani Mathews, G.M. 1912. Notes on Australian cuckoos. Austral Avian Records 1: 2-22 [12] [published anonymously, authorship credited in Austral. Avian Rec. 1: 65; holotype figured on pl. 351 (bottom) and described in detail on p. 313 in Mathews, G.M. 1918. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 7 pt 3 pp. 217–320 pls 343–351 [26 Aug. 1918, volume dated as 1918–1919]].
    Type data:
     Holotype AMNH 626070 ♂ adult (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. 1416), Albany, south WA
    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.
  • Cacomantis rubricatus eyrei Mathews, G.M. 1918. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 7 pt 3 pp. 217-320 pls 343-351. [Date published 26 Aug. 1918: volume dated as 1918–1919] [320] [although syntypes cited 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, the original description states 'the type is a male from Eyre's Peninsula … collected on the 25th Aug., 1911'—this specimen (holotype) is presumed to be the first syntype quoted by Greenway (loc. cit.)—only if Greenway's second cited specimen, AMNH 626120, was also collected on Eyre Peninsula on 25 Aug. 1911 is there a case for accepting syntypes].
    Type data:
     Holotype AMNH 626118 ♂ (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. unspecified; institution uncertain), Warunna (=Warunda ?) Creek, Eyre Peninsula, SA (as Eyre Peninsula, South Australia).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Coastal and subcoastal E and S Australia, north to Cape York Peninsula and Torres Strait islands (passage migrant)—south to TAS and islands in Bass Strait (King Is., Furneaux group)—south-west to SW WA, north to the Murchison River (Mt Curious)—and inland in east to W footslopes of Great Dividing Range system (Georgetown, Hughenden, Barcaldine, Charleville, QLD, and Bourke, Griffith-Cocoparra Range, NSW), and in south to Murray-Darling River system and adjacent mallee, Mt Lofty-Flinders Ranges, Eyre Peninsula north to Gawler Ranges and Ceduna, SA, and to a line from Eyre and Norseman through Merredin and Morawa to the Murchison River drainage, WA—also Dunk, Brampton, Fraser, Peel, Bribie, Moreton, Stradbroke, Kangaroo and Rottnest Ils, inter alia—non-breeding visitor at northern and inland limits, including Cape York Peninsula, Groote Eylandt (once), Aru Ils, and Trans-Fly region of S New Guinea.


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 and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), 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), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), 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), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
    • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
    • South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, SE coastal, W plateau
    • Tasmania
    • Victoria
    • Western Australia: NW coastal, SW coastal, W plateau

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, arthropod-feeder, closed forest, diurnal, low open woodland, low shrubland, low woodland, migratory, nomadic, open forest, open heath, open scrub, tall forest, tall open shrubland, tall shrubland, territorial, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Randomly dispersed, seasonal breeder, solitary, rarely in small groups, feeds by perch-and-pounce sallying from bare or open perches in mid and lower stages of forest and woodland, taking caterpillars and other insects from foliage and ground, flies in graceful undulations, elevates tail on alighting, brood parasite parasitizing mainly species of Acanthiza Vigors & Horsfield, 1827 and Sericornis Gould, 1837 (Acanthizidae), evidently contracting southwards and coastwards to breed in Aug.-Jan. and dispersing northwards and inland in autumn-winter, with some birds remaining in breeding range—movements not well understood.

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
12-Feb-2010 (import)