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CAVS: 9977

Subspecies Collocalia esculenta natalis Lister, 1889

Christmas Island Swiftlet

  • 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


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

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.

 

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)
10-Nov-2020 AVES 07-Oct-2020 MODIFIED
02-Jul-2015 MODIFIED