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Subspecies Cyclopsitta diophthalma macleayana Ramsay, 1874

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Subspecies Cyclopsitta diophthalma macleayana Ramsay, 1874

  • Cyclopsitta macleayana Ramsay, E.P. 1874. Description of a new species of genus Cyclopsitta, from northern Queensland. Sydney Morning Herald 70(11378): 5 [published 5 Nov.] [5, col. 5] [description reprinted on 7 Nov. 1874 in Sydney Mail 18(749): 587 (col. 4) and, in 1875, in Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1875: 602–60; as Macleayana; based on male, female and immature material then in AM, the W. Macleay collection (MMUS), and Ramsay's own Dobroyde collection later acquired by AM].
    Type data:
     
    Syntype(s) AM 0.18582 ♂, coast range near Cardwell, Rockingham Bay, QLD; AM 0.18583 ♀, coast range near Cardwell, Rockingham Bay, QLD
    Comment: two syntypes confirmed in AM by Longmore, N.W. 1991. Type specimens of birds in the Australian Museum. Technichal Report of the Australian Museum n 4: 1–42; other type material in AM and the Macleay Museum not traced, cf. Stanbury, P.J. 1969. Type specimens in the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney III. Birds. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 93: 457-461.
  • Cyclopsitta leadbeateri McCoy, F. 1875. Note on an apparently new parrot from Cardwell, NE Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4 16: 54 [published July] [54] [as Leadbeateri; described from the same series from the same collector (K. Broadbent) as Cyclopsitta macleayana Ramsay, 1874, but probably after the series was dispersed by Eli (and Charles?) Waller to different museums, cf. Mathews, G.M. 1916. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 6 pt 1. pp. 1–104 pls 275–282 [publication dated as 1916–1917, 22 Nov. 1916] (70–71) and Whittell, H.M. 1954. The Literature of Australian Birds: a History and Bibliography of Australian Ornithology. Perth : Paterson Brokensha xi 116 788 pp. (738–739); thus leadbeateri McCoy, 1875 is not necessarily an objective synonym of macleayana Ramsay, 1874].
    Type data:
     
    Syntype(s) NMV R8633 ♀, Cardwell, QLD; NMV R8634 ♀, Cardwell, QLD.
  • Cyclopsitta maccoyi Gould, J. 1875. Descriptions of three new species of Australian birds. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1875: 314-315 [Date published 1 Aug 1875] [314] [published Aug.; as maccoyi; based on a figure and specimens of both sexes from the same series as Cyclopsitta macleayana Ramsay, 1874, and C. leadbeateri McCoy, July 1875, but after the series was dispersed by Eli (and Charles?) Waller to different museums, cf. Mathews, G.M. 1916. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 6 pt 1. pp. 1–104 pls 275–282 [publication dated as 1916–1917, 22 Nov. 1916] (70–71), and Whittell, H.M. 1954. The Literature of Australian Birds: a History and Bibliography of Australian Ornithology. Perth : Paterson Brokensha xi 116 788 pp. (738–739); thus maccoyi Gould, 1875 is not necessarily an objective synonym of macleayana Ramsay, 1874 or leadbeateri McCoy, 1875; syntypes figured on pl. 7 in Gould, J. 1888. The Birds of New Guinea and the adjacent Papuan islands, including many new species recently discovered in Australia. London : H. Sotheran & Co. Vol. 5 75 pls 77 pp. [published between 1875–1888]].
    Type data:
     
    Syntype(s) BMNH 1881. 5.1. 4827 ♀ (ex J. Gould coll. per E. Waller), Rockingham Bay, QLD; whereabouts unknown (?lost, ex J. Gould coll. per E. Waller), Rockingham Bay, QLD
    Comment: for identification of syntypes, see Salvadori, T. 1891. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Psittaci, or Parrots. London : British Museum Vol. 20 xvii 658 pp. XVIII pls (95), and 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., neither of whom cite any male syntype.
  • Type data:
     
    Syntype(s) AMNH 618990 ♂ (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. 16784), Barron River, north QLD; AMNH 618991 ♂ (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. unspecified), Barron River, north QLD; AMNH 618992 ♀ (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. unspecified), Barron River, north QLD
    Comment: for identification of syntypes, 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.
  • Cyclopsitta wallerii Mathews, G.M. 1930. Some interesting links with John Gould. The Emu 30: 141-143 [141] [as junior synonym, and unavailable under ICZN Art 11 (e); based on an unpublished plate by E. Waller drawn from specimens which, possibly now in QM (e.g., 0.10655), were collected by K. Broadbent before July 1874 and may have been part of the original series from which Cyclopsitta macleayana Ramsay, 1874, C. leadbeateri McCoy, 1875 and C. maccoyi Gould, 1875 (q.v.) were described—as these nominal species were described after the series was dispersed, Cyclopsitta wallerii Mathews, 1930 is probably not an objective synonym of any of them].
    Type data:
     Holotype QM unspecified (institution uncertain), Cardwell, Rockingham Bay, QLD.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland


Extra Distribution Information

North to Mt Finnegan-Mt Amos, south to Seaview-Paluma Ranges, and inland to Atherton-Evelyn Tablelands (Mt Molloy, Ravenshoe).


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.
IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, closed forest, diurnal, frugivorous, granivore, gregarious, nomadic, open forest, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder(?), sexually dimorphic, in lowland to mid altitude rainforests, feeds arboreally on fruit, mainly figs, often flocks in small groups, flies swiftly and directly through and over forest canopy, nests on wood dust debris in small tree holes, incubation by female, the female rears the whitish-downed, flesh-billed chick assisted by male, wanders locally to seasonal food sources, entering open forests to feed on isolated figs and other fruit trees.

 

General References

Bourke, P.A. & Austin, A.F. 1947. Notes on the Red-browed Lorilet. The Emu 46: 286-294 (general biology)

Forshaw, J.M. 1979. Eggs of the Double-eyed Fig Parrot. Australian Bird Watcher 8: 98-99 [Mathews, G.M. 1917. Sylvester Diggles, Ornithologist. Austral Avian Records 3: 98–108] (eggs)

 

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)
01-Mar-2012 01-Mar-2012 MOVED
12-Feb-2010 (import)