• Erythrurinae Delacour, 1943.

History of changes

• Chloebia Reichenbach, H.G.L. 1862. Die Singvögel. (in 3 parts). Dresden Vol. 1. [dated as published in 1862-1863, but appearing in Pts VI-VIII of the Central Atlas of Reichenbach's Vollständigste Naturgeschichte des In- und Aus-landes, and thus before Pts IX and X in 1862] [30] [dated as published in 1862-1863, but appearing in Pts VI-VIII of the Central Atlas of Reichenbach's Vollständigste Naturgeschichte des In- und Aus-landes, and thus before Pts IX and X in 1862].

  Type species:

   Amadina gouldiae Gould, 1844 by monotypy.
• Gouldaeornis Mathews, G.M. 1923. Additions and Corrections to my Lists of the Birds of Australia. Austral Avian Records 5: 33-44 [Date published 21 Feb 1923] [41].

  Type species:

   Amadina gouldiae Gould, 1844 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

History of changes

• Amadina gouldiae Gould, J. 1844. The Birds of Australia. London : J. Gould Vol. 4(15). [pl. 88].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ANSP 14645 adult ♂ (type locality mentioned as being 'Greenhill Island, Van Dieman Gulf' Stone & Mathews (1913 (1): 178)), NT: Port Essington.
  Paralectotype(s) ANSP 14638 immature ♀, NT: Van Dieman Gulf; ANSP 14638 immature ♀, NT: Van Dieman Gulf.

  Type locality references:

  Stone, W. in Stone, W. & Mathews, G.M. 1913. A list of the species of Australian birds described by John Gould, with the location of the type-specimens. Austral Avian Records 1: 129-180 [Date published 28 Feb 1913] [178] (type locality mentioned as being Greenhill Island, Van Dieman Gulf).
• Poephila mirabilis Des Murs, M.A.F.O. 1845. Notice sur l'espèce de Passereau nommée Poephila mirabilis dans l'Atlas du Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l'océanie, pl. 22, Oiseaux. 8th Year. Revue de Zoologie, Paris 1845: 447-448 [Date published Dec 1845] [pl. 3].
• Poephila armitiana Ramsay, E.P. 1877. Some further remarks on Poephila Gouldiae and Poephila mirabilis (Homb. et Jacq.). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2(1): 70-72 [Date published Jul 1877] [72].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM O.18595 immature ♀, Qld: Four Mile Creek, Dunrobin, Georgetown area.
• Poephila gouldiae kempi Mathews, G.M. 1915. Additions and corrections to my List of the Birds of Australia. Austral Avian Records 2: 123-133 [Date published 129] [132].
• Poephila gouldiae westra Mathews, G.M. 1923. Additions and Corrections to my Lists of the Birds of Australia. Austral Avian Records 5: 33-44 [Date published 21 Feb 1923] [41].

Generic Combinations

• Chloebia gouldiae (Gould, 1844). —
  Reichenbach, H.G.L. 1862. Die Singvögel. (in 3 parts). Dresden Vol. 1. [dated as published in 1862-1863, but appearing in Pts VI-VIII of the Central Atlas of Reichenbach's Vollständigste Naturgeschichte des In- und Aus-landes, and thus before Pts IX and X in 1862] [30] (changed combination as type species of the genus Chloebia)
• Erythrura gouldiae (Gould, 1844). —
  Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1999. The Directory of Australian Birds : Passerines. A Taxonomic and Zoogeographic Atlas of the Biodiversity of Birds in Australia and its Territories. Collingwood, Australia : CSIRO Publishing x 851 pp. [767]

Introduction

Previously placed in Erythrura but returned to the monotypic Chloebia following differences highlighted in Olsson & Alström (2020).

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

Paperbark woodland, tropical eucalypt.

General References

Olsson, U. & Alström, P. 2020. A comprehensive phylogeny and taxonomic evaluation of the waxbills (Aves: Estrildidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 146: Art. 106757

Common Name References

Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1999. The Directory of Australian Birds : Passerines. A Taxonomic and Zoogeographic Atlas of the Biodiversity of Birds in Australia and its Territories. Collingwood, Australia : CSIRO Publishing x 851 pp. (Gouldian Finch)

History of changes

• Erythrura Swainson, W. 1837. On the Natural History and Classification of Birds. In, Lardner, D. (ed.). The Cabinet Cyclopaedia. London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman and John Taylor Vol. 2(92) vi 398 pp. [publication dated 1836-1837 Kluge, A.G. 1971. John Edward Gray and "The Zoological Miscellany". In Gray, J.E. (1831–1844). The Zoological Miscellany. [reprint]. U.S.A. Misc. Publ. of Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles.] [280] [alternative original spelling, and universally chosen].

  Type species:

   Erythrura viridis Temminck, 1835 by monotypy (= Loxia prasina Sparrman, 1788).
• Erythura Swainson, W. 1837. On the Natural History and Classification of Birds. In, Lardner, D. (ed.). The Cabinet Cyclopaedia. London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman and John Taylor Vol. 2(92) vi 398 pp. [publication dated 1836-1837 Kluge, A.G. 1971. John Edward Gray and "The Zoological Miscellany". In Gray, J.E. (1831–1844). The Zoological Miscellany. [reprint]. U.S.A. Misc. Publ. of Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles.] [280] [alternative original spelling of Erythrura Swainson, 1837].

  Type species:

   Loxia prasina Sparrman, 1788 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal
• Indonesia
  • Irian Jaya
  • Sulawesi (Celebes)
• New Caledonia
• Palau
• Papua New Guinea
  • Bismarck Archipelago
  • D'Entrecasteaux Ils
  • New Britain
  • New Ireland
• Vanuatu

History of changes

• Acalanthe Reichenbach, H.G.L. 1862. Die Singvögel. (in 3 parts). Dresden Vol. 1. [dated as published in 1862-1863, but appearing in Pts VI-VIII of the Central Atlas of Reichenbach's Vollständigste Naturgeschichte des In- und Aus-landes, and thus before Pts IX and X in 1862] [32] [senior to simultaneously published Amblynura Reichenbach, 1862 and Trichroa Reichenbach, 1862, (q.v.), by action of first revisers, Mayr et al., Peters' Checklist of Birds of the World. 14 (1968: 306-390) and Ziswiler et al., Bonner Zool. Monogr. 2 (1972: 1-158), ICdZN Art. 24.2].

  Type species:

   Fringilla psittacea Gmelin, 1789 by monotypy.
• Trichroa Reichenbach, H.G.L. 1862. Die Singvögel. (in 3 parts). Dresden Vol. 1. [dated as published in 1862-1863, but appearing in Pts VI-VIII of the Central Atlas of Reichenbach's Vollständigste Naturgeschichte des In- und Aus-landes, and thus before Pts IX and X in 1862] [33] [dated as published in 1862-1863, but appearing in Pts VI-VIII of the Central Atlas of Reichenbach's Vollständigste Naturgeschichte des In- und Aus-landes, which appeared before Pts IX and X, and thus in 1862].

  Type species:

   Fringilla trichroa Kittlitz, 1835 by absolute tautonymy.
• Lobospingus De Vis, C.W. 1897. Diagnoses of thirty-six new or little-known birds from British New Guinea. Ibis 7 3(11): 371-392 [Date published Jul 1897] [389].

  Type species:

   Lobospingus sigillifer De Vis, 1897 by monotypy.
• Chloromunia Mathews, G.M. 1923. Additions and Corrections to my Lists of the Birds of Australia. Austral Avian Records 5: 33-44 [Date published 21 Feb 1923] [40].

  Type species:

   Erythrura trichroa macgillivrayi Mathews, 1914 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Queensland

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
• Indonesia
  • Irian Jaya
  • Sulawesi (Celebes)
• New Caledonia
• Palau
• Papua New Guinea
  • Bismarck Archipelago
  • D'Entrecasteaux Ils
  • New Britain
  • New Ireland
• Vanuatu

History of changes

Distribution

States

Queensland

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
• Indonesia
  • Irian Jaya
  • Sulawesi (Celebes)
• New Caledonia
• Palau
• Papua New Guinea
  • Bismarck Archipelago
  • D'Entrecasteaux Ils
  • New Britain
  • New Ireland
• Vanuatu

Ecological Descriptors

Broadleaf thicket/shrubland, mangrove or mangal, subtropical rainforest, tropical rainforest, wet sclerophyll forest.

Nomenclatural details of nominate taxon, not in Australia

Fringilla trichroa Kittlitz, 1835

Common Name References

Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1999. The Directory of Australian Birds : Passerines. A Taxonomic and Zoogeographic Atlas of the Biodiversity of Birds in Australia and its Territories. Collingwood, Australia : CSIRO Publishing x 851 pp. (Blue-faced Parrot-finch)

History of changes

• Erythrura trichroa macgillivrayi Mathews, G.M. 1914. Additions and corrections to my List of the Birds of Australia. Austral Avian Records 2(5): 83-107 [Date published 24 Sep 1914] [103] [retained as a subspecies distinct from E. t. sigillifer De Vis (Schodde & Mason, 1999)].

  Secondary source:

   Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1999. The Directory of Australian Birds : Passerines. A Taxonomic and Zoogeographic Atlas of the Biodiversity of Birds in Australia and its Territories. Collingwood, Australia : CSIRO Publishing x 851 pp. [766].
• Lobospingus sigillifer De Vis, C.W. 1897. Diagnoses of thirty-six new or little-known birds from British New Guinea. Ibis 7 3(11): 371-392 [Date published Jul 1897] [389] [the epithet sigillifer is advisedly treated as a noun in apposition: ICdZN Art. 31.2.2, example].

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Erythrura trichroa sigillifer De Vis, 1897 [treated as conspecific with E. t. sigillifer]. —
  del Hoyo, J. & Collar, N.J. 2016. HBW and BirdLife International illustrated checklist of the birds of the world. Volume 2: Passerines. Barcelona : Lynx Edicions pp. 1013. [726]

Introduction

del Hoyo & Collar (2014) consider this subspecies conspecific with E. trichroa sigillifer based on plumage, we retain it as separate pending a more complete assessment of the species and its constituent subspecies.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Broadleaf thicket/shrubland, mangrove or mangal, subtropical rainforest, tropical rainforest, wet sclerophyll forest.

History of changes