Subspecies Eclectus roratus macgillivrayi Mathews, 1913

• Eclectus pectoralis macgillivrayi Mathews, G.M. 1913. New species and subspecies of Australian birds. Austral Avian Records 2: 73-79 [published Dec.] [75] [specification of 'type' in original description covers both male and female, 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; lectotype designated effectively later by Mathews, G.M. 1917. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 6 pt 3 pp. 217–296 pls 291–299 [17 Apr. 1917, volume dated as 1916–1917] (248) under ICZN Art. 74b; lectotype and paralectotype illustrated on pl. 293 and described in detail on pp. 248–249 in Mathews (loc cit.)].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AMNH 620460 ♂ (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. unspecified), Pascoe River, north QLD.
  Paralectotype(s) AMNH 620461 ♀ (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. unspecified).

  Subsequent designation references:

  Mathews, G.M. 1917. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 6 pt 3 pp. 217-296 pls 291-299. [Date published 17 Apr. 1917: volume dated as 1916–1917] [248] (cf. <0055>).

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

East coast of Cape York Peninsula, north to Pascoe River, south to Massy Creek-Stewart River, and inland to Tozer Gap and McIlwraith Range—records from Atherton Tableland are unconfirmed.

IBRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

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

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, sexually dimorphic, in rain- and vine-forests, feeds in the crowns of broadleaf trees on diverse fruits and their seeds, solitary or flocks in small groups, flies directly in cacatuine manner with glides punctuating wing beats, nests often communally on bed of wood dust in high tree hollows, incubation by female, and female assisted by male in rearing sooty-downed, dirty orange or blackish-billed chicks, wanders locally to seasonal food sources.

 

General References

Austin, C.N. 1956. Range extention of three bird species. The Emu 56: 80-81 (distribution unsubstantiated)

Forshaw, J.M. 1981. Australian Parrots. 2nd (revised) Edn. Illustrated by W.T. Cooper. Melbourne : Lansdowne Edns 312 pp. 56 pls. (general biology, references)

MacGillivray, W. 1918. Ornithologists in North Queensland. The Emu 17: 63-87, 145-148, 180-212 [published between 1917–1918] (occurrence, nidification)

 

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