Species Callocephalon fimbriatum (Grant, 1803)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Psittacus galeatus Latham, J. 1801. Supplementum Indicis Ornithologici, sive Systematis Ornithologiae. London : G. Leigh, J. & S. Sotheby 74 pp. [23] [junior homonym of Psittacus galeatus (?Pennant in) Forster, 1781 (=Cacatua sulphurea (Gmelin, 1788)), see 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.] (152); based on the Red-crowned Parrot on p. 369 and figured on pl. 140 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] (Additions), and covering male and female plumages].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (male syntype figured on pl. 140 Latham, J. 1802. Supplement II. to the General Synopsis of Birds. London : Leigh, Sotheby & Son 376 pp. pls CXX–CXL [publication dated as 1801]), NSW (as Nova Hollandia).

  Type locality references:

  Latham, J. 1801. Supplement II. to the General Synopsis of Birds. London : Leigh, Sotheby & Son 376 pp. 120-140 pls. [publication dated as 1801 - see Schodde et al. (2010)] [369-370].
• Psittacus fimbriatus Grant, J. 1803. The Narrative of a Voyage of Discovery, performed in His Majesty's vessel the Lady Nelson, of sixty tons burthen, with sliding keels, in the years 1800, 1801 and 1802, to New South Wales. London : T. Egerton xxvi 195 pp. [pl. opposite p. 135] [published without description but in association with an illustration (a male) and available under ICZN Art. 12(b)(7)].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown (?lost, ex Major-General T. Davies coll. figured on pl. opposite p. 135 in Grant, J. 1803. The Narrative of a Voyage of Discovery, performed in His Majesty's vessel the Lady Nelson, of sixty tons burthen, with sliding keels, in the years 1800, 1801 and 1802, to New South Wales. London : T. Egerton xxvi 195 pp.), Bass River, Westernport, VIC.
• Psittacus phoenicocephalus 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] [nom. nov. for Psittacus galeatus Latham, 1802 ex ms MNHP, as synonym and unavailable under ICZN Art. 11(e)].
• Callocephalon australe Lesson, R.P. 1837. Histoire naturelle. In, Bougainville, L.A. (ed.). Journal de la Navigation autour du Globe de la Frégate la Thétis et de la Corvette l' Espérance pendant les années 1824, 1825 et 1826. Paris : Arthus Bertrand Vol. 2 xvi 351 165 pp. [311, 315-316] [based in part on Psittacus galeatus Latham, 1802, on material referred subsequently to that name, and on specimens (male and female) taken in New South Wales on the Bougainville expedition Lesson, R.P. 1837. Histoire naturelle. In, Bougainville, L.A. (ed). Journal de la Navigation autour du Globe de la Frégate la Thétis et de la Corvette l' Espérance pendant les années 1824, 1825 et 1826. Paris : Arthus Bertrand Vol. 2 xvi 351 165 pp. and figured on pls XXXIX (male) and XL (female) in the Atlas to Lesson (1837); King Is. selected as type locality by 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.] (153, 159), but restriction invalid because no lectotype (e.g., Peron's specimen taken on King Is. on the Baudin expedition) was designated to fix it].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) MNHP (ex Baudin expedition), NSW and King Is., TAS; MNHP ♂ ♀ (ex L.A. Bougainville coll.), NSW and King Is., TAS; (type of Psittacus galeatus Latham, 1802 (q.v.)), NSW and King Is., TAS.
• Kakadoe rubrogaleata Bourjot Saint-Hilaire, A. 1838. Histoire Naturelle des Perroquets, troisième volume (Supplémentaire), pour faire suite aux deux volumes de Levaillant, contenant les espèces laissées inédites par cet auteur ou récemment découvertes. Paris : F.G. Levrault xl 110 pp. 111 pls. [publication dated as 1837–1838] [pl. 75 (75b, 75c)] [as rubrogaleatus vel rubro galeata; nom. nov. for Psittacus galeatus Latham, 1802; but unavailable, as a latinized substantive for a French vernacular name, under ICZN Art. 5 and 11(c), see 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. (Appendix C); 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.]].
• Callocephalon galeatum tasmanicum Mathews, G.M. 1915. Additions and corrections to my List of the Birds of Australia. Austral Avian Records 2: 123-133 [Date published 129] [127].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 619509 ♂ (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. unspecified), TAS
  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.
• Callocorydon fimbriatus superior Mathews, G.M. 1917. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 6 pts 2 pp.105-516 pls 283-324. [Date published Sept. 1917: publication dated as 1916–1917] [158].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 619462 ♂ adult (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. unspecified), Blue Mountains, NSW
  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.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. [177]

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Coast and ranges of SE Australia, north to the Hunter River valley, with outlying population on Barrington-Gloucester Tops, NSW, erratically reaching Armidale and Coffs Harbour—inland to inner west slopes of Great Dividing Range, NSW, VIC—south-west to Grampians and pockets in Otway Ranges and Portland district, VIC, occasionally reaching the extreme South-East of SA (Penola-Millicent-Mt Gambier)—formerly King Is. in Bass Strait, from which individuals may have wandered to TAS before about 1920. Introduced with little success to Kangaroo Is. in 1947 and 1956, other extra-limital records are probably of aviary escapees.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders (FLI), 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), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Victoria

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, diurnal, granivore, gregarious, nomadic, open forest, tall forest, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, sexually dimorphic, feeds arboreally on seeds of eucalypts, acacias and introduced Cupressaceae and Rosaceae, (including Crataegus), flocks in small groups, flies with slow, deep, swaying wing beats and little gliding, nests in high hollows lined with wood debris, both sexes incubate and feed yellow-downed chicks, wanders regionally to seasonal sources of food, disperses through coastal and lower altitudes of the Great Dividing Range in autumn-winter and partially retires to higher, cooler mountain forests to breed in spring-summer.

 

General References

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

Mathews, G.M. 1917. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 6 pts 2 pp.105-516 pls 283-324. [Date published Sept. 1917: publication dated as 1916–1917] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement also subsequent revisions)

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

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)

White, N.E., Phillips, M.J., Gilbert, M.T.P., Alfaro-Núñez, A., Willerslev, E., Mawson, P.R., Spencer, P.B.S. & Bunce, M. 2011. The evolutionary history of cockatoos (Aves: Psittaciformes: Cacatuidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 59: 615-622

 

History of changes

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