Subspecies Collocalia esculenta natalis Lister, 1889
Christmas Island Swiftlet
- Collocalia natalis Lister, J.J. 1889. On the natural history of Christmas Island, in the Indian Ocean. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1888: 512-534 [publication dated 1888] [520].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH 1888.8.12.13 ♂ adult, Christmas Is.; BMNH unsexed adult (no. unspecified), Christmas Is.
Comment: for identification of syntypes, 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] (511); 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.
Distribution
Extra Distribution Information
Christmas Island only, Indian Ocean
IMCRA
Christmas Island Province (23)
Other Regions
Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater
Ecological Descriptors
Aerial, arthropod-feeder, closed forest, diurnal, gregarious, low open shrubland, low shrubland, open forest, sedentary, tussock grassland, volant, woodland.
General References
Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 2008. Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 288 pp. (consider natalis to be a subspecies of Collocalia linchi)
Common Name References
Clayton, M., Wombey, J.C., Mason, I.J., Chesser, R.T. & Wells, A. 2006. CSIRO List of Australian Vertebrates: A Reference with Conservation Status. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing iv 162 pp. (Christmas Island Swiftlet)
History of changes
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