Species Eclectus roratus (P.L.S. Müller, 1776)

male Eclectus Parrot, North Queensland

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Museums

Regional Maps

Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

• Peters, J.L. 1937. Check-list of Birds of the World. Cambridge : Harvard University Press Vol. 3 xiii 311 pp. [231-233]

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Details of nominate subspecies, not present in Australia

Psittacus roratus Müller, P.L.S. 1776. Des Ritters Carl von Linné vollständigen Natursystems Supplements und Register Band über alle sechs Thiele oder Classen des Thierreichs. Mit einer ausführlichen Erklärung. Supplement. Nürnberg : G.N. Raspe 384 pp. [publication date] [77] [chosen over Psittacus aurantius P.L.S. Müller, 1776 and Psittacus pectoralis P.L.S. Müller, 1776 by Salvadori, T. 1880. Ornitologia della Papuasia e delle Molucche. Parte Prima. Torino : G.B. Paravia & Co. xii 573 pp. (197) and Rothschild, W. 1922. On the names of certain parrots of the genus Larius, Bodd. = Eclectus, Wagl. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 9: 411–412 respectively, actions of first revisers under ICZN Art. 24; by reference to Vosmaer in the protologue, Psittacus roratus P.L.S. Müller, 1776 is based ultimately on le Lory d'Amboine in Brisson, M.-J. 1760. Ornithologie ou méthode contenant la Division des oiseaux en Ordres, Sectiones, Genres, Espèces & leurs Variétés. Paris : J.-B. Bauche Vol. IV 576 liv pp. XLVI pls (231), itself based on a female acquired by the 'Cabinet du Roi', Paris, from Ambon ex W.G. Graaf Bentinck and since destroyed, see Stresemann, E. 1952. On the birds collected by Pierre Poivre in Canton, Manila, India and Madagascar (1751–1756). Ibis 94: 499–523 [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) Mathews, G.M. 1919. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 7 pt 5 pp. 385–499 + xii pls 363–370 Appendixes A & B [publication dated as from preface, 12 June 1919 given in Appendix B]]; holotype figured on pl. 518 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. VII, opposite p. 107 where described as 'Le Lori Cramoisi')]

Type data: holotype MNHP ♀ adult (ex W.G. Graaf Bentinck coll. per Réaumur Museum, destroyed, figured on pl. 518 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.]).
Type locality: Ambon, Moluccas (as Amboina), see Rothschild, W. 1922. On the names of certain parrots of the genus Larius, Bodd. = Eclectus, Wagl. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 9: 411–412; Stresemann, E. 1952. On the birds collected by Pierre Poivre in Canton, Manila, India and Madagascar (1751–1756). Ibis 94: 499–523 [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) Mathews, G.M. 1919. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 7 pt 5 pp. 385–499 + xii pls 363–370 Appendixes A & B [publication dated as from preface, 12 June 1919 given in Appendix B]].

General References

Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. (subspecific arrangement)

Forshaw, J.M. 1978. Parrots of the World. 2nd (revised) Edn. Illustrated by W.T. Cooper. Melbourne : Lansdowne Edns 616 pp. 158 pls. (subspecific arrangement)

Rothschild, W. 1922. On the names of certain parrots of the genus Larius, Bodd. = Eclectus, Wagl. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 9: 411-412 (subspecific arrangement)

Rothschild, W. & Hartert, E. 1901. Notes on Papuan birds. Novitates Zoologicae 8: 55-88 [81-82] (subspecific arrangement)

White, C.M.N. & Bruce, M.D. 1986. The Birds of Wallacea (Sulawesi, the Moluccas & Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia). An annotated check-list. B.O.U. Check-list No. 7. London : British Ornithologists' Union 524 pp. (subspecific arrangement)

Wolters, H.E. 1975. Die Vogelarten der Erde. Eine systematische Liste mit Verbreitungsangaben sowie deutschen und englischen Namen. Hamburg : Paul Parey Lief. 1, 1-80 pp. (subspecific arrangement)

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