Species Chalcophaps indica (Linnaeus, 1758)

Emerald Dove, Lord Howe Island, December 2011

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Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

• Johnstone, R.E. 1984. Notes on the distribution and ecology of the Green-winged Pigeon Chalcophaps indica (Linnaeus) in Western Australia, with comments on subspeciation in the Australian region. Western Australian Naturalist 16: 4-8 [8]

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Christmas Island Province (23)

Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater

Details of nominate subspecies, not present in Australia

Columba indica Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 iv 823 pp. [164] [based on the Green-winged Dove in Edwards, G. [1743-1751] 1751. A Natural History of Uncommon Birds, and of some other rare and undescribed Animals. London : G. Edwards 4 pts 248 pp. 210 pls (pt 1, pl. 14 and text), quoting a specimen in the collection of John Warner and a live bird held caged by Sir Hans Sloane; type locality assigned to Amboina by Ripley, S.D. 1961. A Synopsis of the Birds of India and Pakistan. Bombay : Bombay Natural History Society xxxvi 703 pp. (167), based on Stresemann, E. 1952. On the birds collected by Pierre Poivre in Canton, Manila, India and Madagascar (1751–1756). Ibis 94: 499–523 [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) 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 [publication dated as from preface, 12 June 1919 given in Appendix B]], however, Stresemann quoted Amboina as the type locality for Columba javanensis P.L.S. Müller, 1776 (=Chalcophaps indica indica (Linnaeus, 1758)), not for the name Columba indica Linnaeus, 1758 itself].

Type data: syntypes whereabouts unknown (figured in Edwards, G. [1743-1751] 1751. A Natural History of Uncommon Birds, and of some other rare and undescribed Animals. London : G. Edwards 4 pts 248 pp. 210 pls).
Type locality: East Indies (as India orientali), see Salvadori, T. 1893. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Columbae, or Pigeons. London : British Museum Vol. 21 xvii 676 pp. XV pls [514].

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)

Goodwin, D. 1967. Australian pigeons: their affinities and status. The Emu 66: 319-336 (subspecific arrangement and relationships of Australian taxa to Malesian populations)

Peters, J.L. 1937. Check-list of Birds of the World. Cambridge : Harvard University Press Vol. 3 xiii 311 pp. (subspecific arrangement and for identity of population on Christmas Is., cf. <0155> (520); <2011>; <6015>; <0154>)

Salvadori, T. 1893. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Columbae, or Pigeons. London : British Museum Vol. 21 xvii 676 pp. XV pls. (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. (subspecific arrangement and relationships of Australian taxa to Malesian populations)

Wolters, H.E. 1975. Die Vogelarten der Erde. Eine systematische Liste mit Verbreitungsangaben sowie deutschen und englischen Namen. Hamburg : Paul Parey Lief. 1, 1-80 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

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