Subspecies Geoffroyus geoffroyi maclennani (Macgillivray, 1913)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pseudopsittacus maclennani MacGillivray, W. 1913. Description of a new parrot. The Emu 13: 105-106 [105-106] [types sent to G.M. Mathews for study, see 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] (254), and kept; both types illustrated on pl. 294 and described in detail on pp. 253–254 in 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]; for their subsequent deposition and identification, 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].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AMNH 620775 ♂ (ex W.D. MacGillivray coll. per G.M. Mathews), Pascoe River, Cape York Peninsula, QLD.
  Paralectotype(s) AMNH 620776 ♀ (ex W.D. MacGillivray coll. per G.M. Mathews).

  Subsequent designation references:

  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.
• Geoffroyus geoffroyi macgillivrayi 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] [253] [?nom. nov. for Pseudopsittacus maclennani MacGillivray, 1913; junior objective synonym of that name, based on its lectotype and published without reason].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 620775 ♂ (ex W.D. MacGillivray coll. per G.M. Mathews), Pascoe River, Cape York Peninsula, QLD.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Peters, J.L. 1937. Check-list of Birds of the World. Cambridge : Harvard University Press Vol. 3 xiii 311 pp. [235]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Eastern Cape York Peninsula, north to Pascoe River, south to Rocky River-Massy Creek, and inland to Tozer Gap and McIlwraith Range (Peach Creek on west watershed).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

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, resident, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder/opportunistic breeder, sexually dimorphic, feeds on fruit and seeds in crowns of rain-and vine-forest and adjacent eucalypt forest, often flocks in small groups, flies swiftly and directly with continuous deep wing beats, nests on bed of decayed wood dust in tree hollows, wanders locally to seasonal food sources.

 

General References

Cleland, J.B. 1918. The food of Australian birds. An investigation into the character of the stomach and crop contents. N.S.W. Dept. Agri. Sci. Bull. No. 15 112 pp. (diet)

Forshaw, J.M. 1966. Observations and systematic notes on the Red-cheeked Parrot. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 14: 175-180 (general biology except feeding, systematics of Australian population)

 

History of changes

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10-Nov-2020		01-Mar-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)