Subspecies Chalcophaps longirostris rogersi Mathews, 1912

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• Chalcophaps chrysochlora rogersi Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [187] [chosen over simultaneously published Chalcophaps chrysochlora kempi Mathews, 1912 by Mathews, G.M. 1913. A List of the Birds of Australia containing the names and synonyms connected with each genus, species, and subspecies of birds found in Australia, at present known to the author. London : Witherby xxvii 453 pp., action of first reviser (ICZN Art. 24(b)); 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, it is figured on pl. 34, front figure, and described on p. 141 but not named in Mathews, G.M. 1911. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 1 pt 3 pp. 137–182 pls 34–45 [volume publication dated as 1910–1911; published 29 Apr. 1911], as cited in original description; the name chrysochlora Wagler, 1827 is commonly used for this subspecies but is misapplied: under Columba sp. 79, Wagler, J. 1827. Systema Avium. Pars prima. Stuttgart and Tubingen : J.G. Cottae 411 (unpaginated) pp. based his Columba chrysochlora, inter alia, on the 'Tourterelle de Java' (=Chalcophaps indica (Linnaeus, 1758)) on pl. 177 of Daubenton, E.L. 1781. Planches Enluminées d'Histoire Naturelle. In Buffon, G.L. (1770–1786). Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux. Paris : l'Imprimerie Royale Vols I–X. [published between as 1765-1781 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.] (Vol. III, pp. 48–49), and on Columba javanica Gmelin, 1789, as figured on pl. 26 in Temminck, C.J. 1809. Histoire Naturelle générale des Pigeons. Peintes par Mademoiselle Pauline de Courcelles. Paris : Garnery ix 41 128 30 xvi iii pp. 59 pls [livr. 9; publication dated as 1808–1811]; it thus includes several forms of Chalcophaps indica (Linnaeus, 1758), only one of which resembles the eastern Australian-New Guinean subspecies: that represented on pl. 26 in Temminck, C.J. 1809. Histoire Naturelle générale des Pigeons. Peintes par Mademoiselle Pauline de Courcelles. Paris : Garnery ix 41 128 30 xvi iii pp. 59 pls [livr. 9; publication dated as 1808–1811]; from its extensive white 'shoulders' and textual references in Temminck, this specimen is almost certainly from Timor, one of at least three collected by the Baudin expedition—it is probably extant in MNHP; there is otherwise no evidence that Wagler had material of the eastern Australian population when describing chrysochlora; to prevent the name from disturbing nomenclature further as the senior synonym for any other form of this species, the specimen figured on pl. 177 in Daubenton, E.L. 1781. Planches Enluminées d'Histoire Naturelle. In Buffon, G.L. (1770–1786). Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux. Paris : l'Imprimerie Royale Vols I–X. [published between as 1765-1781 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.] and probably since destroyed in MNHP (=Columba javanica Gmelin, 1789 =nominotypical Columba indica Linnaeus, 1758) is chosen here as the lectotype of Columba chrysochlora Wagler, 1827 (Schodde, R. In Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1997. Aves (Columbidae to Coraciidae). In, Houston, W.W.K. & Wells, A. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia Vol. 37.2 xiii 440 pp. [27])].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 615621 ♂ (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. 136), Cairns, N QLD.

  Secondary source:

   Daubenton, E.L. 1781. Planches Enluminées d'Histoire Naturelle. In Buffon, G.L. (1770–1786). Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux. Paris : l'Imprimerie Royale Vols I–X. [published between as 1765-1781 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.]; Temminck, C.J. 1809. Histoire Naturelle générale des Pigeons. Peintes par Mademoiselle Pauline de Courcelles. Paris : Garnery ix 41 128 30 xvi iii pp. 59 pls. [livr. 9; publication dated as 1808–1811]; Wagler, J. 1827. Systema Avium. Pars prima. Stuttgart and Tubingen : J.G. Cottae 411 (unpaginated).; Mathews, G.M. 1911. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 1 pt 3 pp. 137-182 pls 34-45. [volume publication dated as 1910–1911; published 29 Apr. 1911]; Mathews, G.M. 1913. A List of the Birds of Australia containing the names and synonyms connected with each genus, species, and subspecies of birds found in Australia, at present known to the author. London : Witherby xxvii 453 pp.; 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; Schodde, R. in Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1997. Aves (Columbidae to Coraciidae). In, Houston, W.W.K. & Wells, A. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia Vol. 37.2 xiii 440 pp.
• Chalcophaps chrysochlora kempi Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [187].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 615598 ♂ (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. 9800), Cape York, N 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.

  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.

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

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

East coast and coastal scarps of Great Dividing Range and its east spurs, from Cape York Peninsula (west to Albatross Bay) and all closed-forested islands in Torres Strait south to region of Narooma, NSW and erratically further south and west to Gippsland and Melbourne, VIC—also larger off-shore islands along east coast of QLD, Lord Howe Island & Norfolk Island, and coastal E New Guinea, its off-shore islands.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Norfolk Island Province (21), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater, Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater, Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, closed forest, diurnal, frugivorous, granivore, nomadic, resident, tall forest, terrestrial, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Randomly dispersed, seasonal breeder, sexually dimorphic, feeds on ground on fallen fruit and seeds in rainforests, their edges and fringing sclerophyll forest, nests in low shrubbery and in thickets to 8 m up, sedentary or wanders locally and sometimes disperses regionally to seasonal food sources, often at night.

General References

Bell, H.L. 1962. The Green-winged Pigeon in Victoria. The Emu 61: 328-330 [Mathews, G.M. 1942. Additions to the list of Australian birds and other notes. Australian Zoologist 10(suppl.): 161–166] (distribution, habitat)

Frith, H.J. 1977. Some display postures of Australian pigeons. Ibis 119: 167-182 (behaviour)

Hindwood, K.A. 1940. The birds of Lord Howe Island. The Emu 40: 1-86 pl. 1 (status and biology on Lord Howe Is.)

Schodde, R., Fullagar, P. & Hermes, N. 1983. A Review of Norfolk Island Birds: Past and Present. Canberra : Aust. Natl Parks Wldlf. Serv. Spec. Publ. 8 viii (un-numbered) 119 pp. (occurrence and taxonomic identity of Norfolk Is. population)

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