Subspecies Chalcophaps longirostris longirostris Gould, 1848
- Chalcophaps occidentalis North, A.J. 1907. Description of a new species of Chalcophaps from north-western Australia. Victorian Naturalist 24: 135-136 [135] [of the three syntypes, one was kept for AM and the other two, a male and female, were passed to AMNH].
Type data:
Lectotype AM O.16012 ♂ adult, Port Keats, NT (as North-Western Australia).
Paralectotype(s) AMNH 615560 ♂ adult (ex coll. G. M. Mathews no. unspecified); AMNH 615561 ♀ adult; AMNH 615561 ♀ adult
Comment: for identification of syntypes, see Hindwood, K.A. 1946. A list of the types and paratypes of birds from Australian localities in the Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 21: 386–393; 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; Longmore, N.W. 1991. Type specimens of birds in the Australian Museum. Technichal Report of the Australian Museum n 4: 1–42. - Chalcophaps chrysochlora melvillensis Zietz, F.R. 1914. The avifauna of Melville Island, Northern Territory. South Australian Ornithologist 1(1): 11-18 [12] [no type specified in original description, but single wing measurement of '161 mm' cited for Melville Island indicates a holotype and matches the specimen nominated by Condon, H.T. 1976. Vertebrate type-specimens in the South Australian Museum IV. Birds. Records of the South Australian Museum 17: 189–193].
Type data:
Holotype SAMA B1365 ♂, Melville Is., NT
Comment: for identification of holotype, see Condon, H.T. 1976. Vertebrate type-specimens in the South Australian Museum IV. Birds. Records of the South Australian Museum 17: 189–193.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- 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
States
Northern Territory, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Two semi-isolates, one in coastal W Kimberley Division, WA, between Walcott Inlet and Napier Broome Bay, inland to Mitchell Plateau and Carson escarpment and on off-shore islands—and the other in coastal and subcoastal Arnhem Land, NT, between Port Keats and Blue Mud Bay and on Melville-Bathurst Is., Groote Eylandt and ?Sir Edward Pellew Ils (sight records by CSIRO Division of Wildlife and Ecology survey).
IBRA
NT, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Northern Kimberley (NK), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)
Ecological Descriptors
Arboreal, closed forest, diurnal, frugivorous, granivore, sedentary, terrestrial, volant.
Extra Ecological Information
Randomly dispersed, seasonal breeder, sexually dimorphic (reduced), feeds on ground on fallen fruit and seeds in monsoon rainforests and vine thickets, nests in low shrubbery, wanders locally at most to seasonal food sources.
General References
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 (distribution, feeding ecology, breeding, systematics)
Storr, G.M. 1964. Green-winged and Flock Pigeons in the Kimberley Division. Western Australian Naturalist 11: 69 (occurrence and identity of Kimberley population)
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10-Nov-2020 | AVES | 07-Oct-2020 | MODIFIED | |
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |