Subspecies Calyptorhynchus (Calyptorhynchus) banksii samueli Mathews, 1917

Museums

Regional Maps

• Calyptorhynchus banksii samueli Mathews, G.M. 1917. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 6 pt 2 pp. 105-216 pls 283-290. [Date published 6 Feb. 1917: volume dated as 1916-1917 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] [120] [syntypes presumed under ICZN recommendation 73F].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AMNH 619428 ♂ adult (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. unspecified), Hugh River, central Australia; AMNH 619429 ♂ (G.M. Mathews' coll. no unspecified), Hugh River, central Australia
  Comment: for identification of syntypes, 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:

  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.

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

River systems of arid Australia, in a series of now isolated populations, one scattered along the main rivers in and around the Lake Eyre and Bulloo basins (Finke, Diamantina, Cooper-Thomson and Bulloo Rivers, and river systems of central Australian ranges)—and a second along the middle reaches of the Darling River system, east to the lower Barwon River, Macquarie Marshes and middle Bogan River and west to the Menindie Lakes, NSW, rarely reaching Wentworth at the mouth of the Darling.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA: Burt Plain (BRT), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

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

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, diurnal, granivore, gregarious, low open woodland, nomadic, open forest, open scrub, terrestrial, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, sexually dimorphic, feeds on seeds mainly on ground, infrequently in trees except in central Australia, flies over woodlands with slow buoyant wing beats and protracted glides, roosts in loose but often large groups, nests in large tree hollows lined with wood chips, only female incubates and feeds yellow-downed chick, wanders regionally to seasonal food sources and nesting sites.

 

General References

Fisher, M. 1978. Red-tailed Black Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus magnificus). Western Austustralian Aviculture Magazine 1978: 147-149 (nidification, feeding, plumages)

Ford, J. 1980. Morphological and ecological divergence and convergence in isolated populations of the Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo. The Emu 80: 103-120 (distribution, ecology, morphology, systematics)

Ford, J. 1987. Taxonomic status of Pheasant Coucal, Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo and Red-backed Fairy-wren in the Pilbara, Western Australia. Western Australian Naturalist 17: 17-18 (distribution)

Saunders, D.A. 1977. Red-tailed Black Cockatoo breeding twice a year in the south-west of Western Australia. The Emu 77: 107-110 [publication date Meyer de Schauensee, R. 1957. On some avian types, principally Gould's, in the collection of the Academy. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 109: 123–246 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)]] (distribution, nidification)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
04-Aug-2021	Calyptorhynchus Desmarest, 1826	03-May-2021	MODIFIED
10-Nov-2020		01-Mar-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)