Species Caprimulgus macrurus Horsfield, 1821

CAVS: 0332

Large-tailed Nightjar

Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland


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

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Details of nominate subspecies, not present in Australia

Caprimulgus macrurus Horsfield, T. 1821. Systematic arrangement and description of birds from the island of Java. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 13: 133–200 [142] [also as incorrect subsequent spelling, macrourus, see Hartert, E. 1892. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Picariae. Coraciae. London : British Museum Vol. 16 xvi 703 pp. XIV pls [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. Zimmer, J.T. 1926. Catalogue of the Edward E. Ayer Ornithological Library. Field Museum of Natural History Publications, Zoological Series 16: 1–364 (Pt 1, Publ. 239), 365–706 (Pt 2, Publ. 240) (contrasting opinion) Sherborn, C.D. 1922. Index Animalium; sive, Index nominem quae ab A.D. 1758 generibus et speciebus animalium imposita sunt, societatibus eruditorum adiuvantibus. Sectio Secunda, 1801–1850. London : British Museum Pt 1 cxxxvi 128 pp. [lx] Browning, M.R. & Monroe, B.L., Jr 1991. Clarifications and corrections of the dates of issue of some publications containing descriptions of North American birds. Arch. Nat. Hist. 18: 381–405] [537]; for identification of syntype and ipso facto corroboration of type locality, see 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., other syntypes not traced: that the species was described from more than one specimen is implied by Gould, J. 1848. The Birds of Australia. London : J. Gould Vol. 2 104 pls pp. [Pt 17, Dec. 1844] (text to pl. 9, Pt 17, Dec. 1844)].

Type data: syntypes BMNH 1880.1.1.4769 adult ?♂*, whereabouts unknown (?lost).
Type locality: Java.

 

General References

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)

Davis, L.I. 1978. Acoustic evidence of relationships in Caprimulginae. Pan American Studies 1: 22-57 (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Davis, L.I. 1979. Review of recent literature and tape discussions of nightjars. Pan American Studies 2: 20-35 (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Hartert, E. 1906. On the birds of the island of Babber. Novitates Zoologicae 13: 288-302 (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement also subsequent revisions)

Oberholser, H.C. 1915. A synopsis of the races of the long-tailed goatsucker, Caprimulgus macrurus Horsfield. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 48: 587-599 (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Peters, J.L. 1940. Check-list of Birds of the World. Cambridge : Harvard University Press Vol. 4 xii 291 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

White, C.M.N. & Bruce, M.D. 1986. The Birds of Wallacea (Sulawesi, the Moluccas & Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia). An annotated check-list. B.O.U. Check-list No. 7. London : British Ornithologists' Union 524 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Wolters, H.E. 1976. Die Vogelarten der Erde. Eine systematische Liste mit Verbreitungsangaben sowie deutschen und englischen Namen. Hamburg : Paul Parey pp. Lief. 2, 81-160. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

 

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)

Subspecies Caprimulgus macrurus schlegelii Meyer, 1874

CAVS: 8959

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland


Extra Distribution Information

NE Australia, New Guinea and surrounding islands, New Britain, Moluccas, Tanimbar and Lesser Sunda Is., and islands of Flores Sea; coastal Arnhem Land between Port Keats and Rose River, including Melville-Bathurst Ils and Groote Eylandt, NT, south-west islands in Torres Strait, and coastal Cape York Peninsula and E QLD south to the Norman River on west coast and on east coast as far as the Mary River and Fraser Is.—also Papuasia to Lesser Sundas.


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

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

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Ecological Descriptors

Aerial, arthropod-feeder, closed forest, mangrove, nocturnal, nomadic, resident, tall forest, terrestrial, territorial, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Randomly dispersed, seasonal breeder, sexually dimorphic, feeds on wing at night in twisting and turning evolutions on stiffly-held, jerked wings, roosts on ground by day in leaf litter, calls from low perches, lays two pink-buff ellipsoid eggs marbled with clouded grey vermiculations on ground litter, hatchlings buff-downed and immatures plumaged as adults.

 

General References

Barnard, H.G. 1935. Notes on the Large-tailed Nightjar. The Emu 34: 176-177 (voice, behaviour, nidification)

Cleland, J.B. 1918. The food of Australian birds. An investigation into the character of the stomach and crop contents. N.S.W. Dept. Agri. Sci. Bull. No. 15 112 pp. (diet)

Marshall, A.J. 1934. Notes on the Large-tailed Nightjar. The Emu 33: 219-221 (voice, behaviour)

McLean, J.A. 1983. Notes on the nesting of the Large-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus macrurus. Sunbird 13: 72-73 (nidification)

 

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)