Species Hamirostra melanosternon (Gould, 1841)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Buteo melanosternon Gould, J. 1841. [Untitled]. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London [1840]: 159-165 [162].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ANSP 1965 (VN 156) Skin, Interior of New South Wales (200 miles north of Sydney).
  Paralectotype(s) ANSP 1964 (VN 155) Skin, Interior of New South Wales (200 miles north of Sydney).

  Subsequent designation references:

  Ingersoll, A.W. & Fisher, C.T. 2006. Type specimens of birds in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Draft. pp. 1-355 [25].
• Hamirostra montana Brown, T. 1846. Illustrations of the Genera of Birds. London & Edinburgh : Smith & Elder Part 1-14 pp. [pt 8: 12].
• Gypoictinia melanosterna decepta Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [250].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 532147 Skin, Parrys Creek, East Kimberly, Western Australia [15°36'S 128°17'E].

  Type locality references:

  Greenway, J.C. Jnr 1973. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Part 1. Tinamidae, Spheniscidae, Gaviidae, Podicipedidae, Diomedeidae, Procellariidae, Hydrobatidae, Pelecanoididae, Phaethontidae, Pelecanidae, Sulidae, Phalacrocoracidae, Anhingidae, Fregatidae, Ardeidae, Cochleariidae, Scopidae, Ciconiidae, Threskiornithidae, Phoenicopteridae, Anatidae, Cathartidae, Accipitridae, Falconidae, Megapodiidae, Cracidae, Tetraonidae, Phasianidae, Numididae, Meleagrididae, Turnicidae, Pedionomidae, Gruidae, Rallidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 150(3): 207-346 [260].
• Gypoictinia melanosterna Sharpe, R.B. 1874. Catalogue of the Accipitres or Diurnal Birds of Prey in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum Trustees Vol. 1 pp.xiii+479. [335] (An amendment to spelling of melanosternon).
• Gypoictinia leucosternon Kaup, J.J. 1850. Corrigirte Uebersicht der Falconidae. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 16(1): 27-41 [33] [based on Buteo Gould, 1840].

  Secondary source:

   Sharpe, R.B. 1874. Catalogue of the Accipitres or Diurnal Birds of Prey in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum Trustees Vol. 1 pp.xiii+479. [335].

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Distribution References

Common Name References

Anonymous 1969. An Index of Australian Bird Names. Division of WIldlife Research Technical Paper. Canberra : CSIRO Vol. No. 20 pp. 93. [15] (Black-breasted Kite)

Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 1994. The Taxonomy and Species of Birds of Australia and its Territories. Monograph 2. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union iv 112 pp. (Black-breasted Buzzard)

Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 2008. Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 288 pp. [21] (Black-breasted Buzzard)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Nov-2020	AVES	27-Sep-2022	MODIFIED
10-Nov-2020	FALCONIFORMES	27-Jul-2014	MODIFIED	Dr Wayne Longmore
		01-May-2014	MODIFIED