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CAVS: 8927

Subspecies Chalcites minutillus barnardi (Mathews, 1912)

  • Chrysococcyx barnardi Mathews, G.M. 1912. Notes on Australian cuckoos. Austral Avian Records 1: 2-22 [20] [published anonymously—authorship credited in Austral Avian Rec. 1: 65; tail of holotype probably figured on pl. 359 (bottom right) in Mathews, G.M. 1918. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 7 pt 4 pp. 321–384 pls 352–362 [19 Dec. 1918]].
    Type data:
     Holotype AMNH 627025 adult (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. 1464), Coomooboolaroo, Dawson River, QLD
    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.

 

Generic Combinations

  • Chalcites (Chalcites) minutillus barnardi (Mathews, 1912).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland


Extra Distribution Information

Coastal and subcoastal central eastern Australia, breeding north to Fitzroy-Dawson-Mackenzie Rivers basin, QLD, south to Clarence River drainage, possibly Kempsey, NSW, and inland to Yamala and Chinchilla, QLD, and Tenterfield and Glen Innes, NSW—also North Stradbroke and Fraser Ils—and, out of breeding, north to NE QLD (inland to Richmond), Cape York Peninsula, Torres Strait islands and 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: 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), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • New South Wales: SE coastal
    • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, arthropod-feeder, closed forest, diurnal, mangrove, migratory, open forest, territorial, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Randomly dispersed, seasonal breeder, solitary or in dispersed groups on edges of sclerophyllous forests dominated by Casuarina and Melaleuca, feeds by perch-and-pounce sallying, taking insects and their larvae from foliage, flies directly in shallow undulations, breeding males appear to hold territories and court by insistent calling, chasing and courtship feeding, brood parasite parasitizing mainly species of Gerygone Gould, 1841, lays plain olive-bronze eggs, disperses northwards out of breeding in austral autumn and winter.

 

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)
03-Sep-2018 CUCULIDAE 09-Aug-2018 MODIFIED
23-Sep-2013 CUCULIDAE 23-Sep-2013 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)