Species Psephotellus dissimilis Collett, 1898

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Species Psephotellus dissimilis Collett, 1898

Hooded Parrot

Psephotus dissimilis Collett, R. 1898. On some pigeons and parrots from north and north-west Australia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1898: 353-357 [356] [described from four specimens (one male, three female) obtained in Arnhem Land by Knut Dahl in 1894–1895, two syntypes of which were given to G.M. Mathews by Collett, see Mathews, G.M. 1913. In Proceedings of meeting of British Ornithologists' Club, February 12, 1913. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 31: 55–56; and 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:

Syntype(s) AMNH 623431 ♂ (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. unspecified), Mary River, Arnhem Land, NT; AMNH 623432 ♀ (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. unspecified), Mary River, Arnhem Land, NT; UZMO ♀, Mary River, Arnhem Land, NT; UZMO ♀, Mary River, Arnhem Land, NT
Comment: for identification of syntypes sent to Mathews, 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.
Psephotus cucullatus North, A.J. 1909. Note on some living examples of Psephotus dissimilis. Victorian Naturalist 25: 175-176 [176] [proposed conditionally but available under ICZN Art. 15].
Type data:

Syntype(s) AM 0.16238 ♂ adult, Pine Creek, 200 miles (=320 km) southeast of Port Darwin, NT; AM 0.16239 ♀ adult, Pine Creek, 200 miles (=320 km) southeast of Port Darwin, NT
Comment: for identification of syntypes and their source, see Hindwood, K.A. 1946. A list of the types and paratypes of birds from Australian localities in the Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 21: 386–393; Longmore, N.W. 1991. Type specimens of birds in the Australian Museum. Technichal Report of the Australian Museum n 4: 1–42.
Psephotus chrysopterygius blaauwi van Oort, E.D. 1910. On a new form of the genus Psephotus. Notes from the Leyden Museum 32: 71-72 [71] [based on four males and two females from 'Port Darwin' in the cages of F.E. Blaauw, a male of which was acquired by RMNH—remainder apparently lost; given the circumstances, the type locality cannot be defined more precisely than Arnhem Land].
Type data:
Syntype(s) RMNH ♂ (whereabouts of others unknown, probably lost), Arnhem Land, NT (as vicinity of Port Darwin).
Type locality references:
Schodde, R. in Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1997. Aves (Columbidae to Coraciidae). In, Houston, W.W.K. & Wells, A. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia Vol. 37.2 xiii 440 pp. [194].
Psephotellus chrysopterygius dorotheae Mathews, G.M. 1915. Additions and corrections to my List of the Birds of Australia. Austral Avian Records 2: 123-133 [Date published 129] [128] [holotype inferred but not specified in original description; under ICZN Art. 74(a), lectotype nominated and, with paralectotype, illustrated on pl. 314 and described in detail on p. 426 in Mathews, G.M. 1917. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 6 pt 5 pp. 373–444 pls 308–316 [11 Sept. 1917, volume dated as 1916-1917 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] (Appendix B)]; for identification of these specimens as syntypes, 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 623436 ♂ (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. unspecified), Borroloola, McArthur River, NT (as McArthur River, Gulf of Carpentaria).
Paralectotype(s) AMNH 623437 ♀ (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. unspecified).
Subsequent designation references:
Mathews, G.M. 1917. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 6 pt 5 pp. 373-444 pls 308-316. [Date published 11 Sept. 1917: volume dated as 1916-1917 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] (Appendix B)] [426].
Type locality 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 (Borroloola misspelt).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Condon, H.T. 1941. The Australian broadtailed parrots (subfamily Platycercinae). Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 7: 117-144 [143] (based on Le Soeuf, A.S. & Kinghorn, J.R. 1924. Notes on the Golden Shouldered and Hooded Parrots. Emu 24: 1–3;Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia Pt 1 Non-passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp.; Sibley, C.G. & Monroe, B.L., Jr 1990. Distribution and Taxonomy of Birds of the World. New Haven : Yale University Press xxiv 1111 pp.; cf. Mathews, G.M. 1913. The Hooded Parrakeet. Psephotus dissimilis Collett. Aviculture Magazine 3 4: 151–153)

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

Extra Distribution Information

Arnhem Land, formerly north to N coast, east to about McArthur River, south to McArthur and Roper River catchments, and west to Mary and upper Daly Rivers, also Melville-Bathurst Ils—now apparently restricted to mainland from upper Mary River east to western shores of Gulf of Carpentaria and south-east to Roper River, but absent from N coastal plain west of and including Arnhem Land escarpment from South Alligator River.

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

NT: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, diurnal, granivore, gregarious, low open woodland, nomadic, open forest, resident, terrestrial, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, sexually dimorphic, in well-grassed eucalypt and paperbark (Melaleuca) woodland and open forest with termitaria, feeds almost exclusively on grass seeds on or near the ground, groups in pairs or small flocks, flies in shallow undulations bringing wings in to side of body, nests on bed of earth in excavated burrows in termitaria, incubation by female, both sexes rear pale grey-downed, yellowish-billed chicks, wanders locally or regionally to seasonal food sources.