Subspecies Collocalia esculenta natalis Lister, 1889

• 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

Birds Australia 1999. Handbook of Australian New Zealand and Antartic Birds. Oxford university Press Vol. 4. [1052]

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)

Hartert, E. 1892. Podargidae. In, Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Picariae. Coraciae. London : British Museum Vol. 16 xvi 703 pp. XIV pls. [509]

 

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

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Nov-2020	AVES	07-Oct-2020	MODIFIED
		02-Jul-2015	MODIFIED