Subspecies Lophochroa leadbeateri mollis (Mathews, 1912)

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• Cacatoes leadbeateri mollis Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [265] [chosen here as taking precedence over C. l. mungi Mathews, 1912 under ICZN Art. 24(b), action of first reviser].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 619719 ♂ adult (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. 5170), Carnamah, WA (as West Australia)
  Comment: for identification of holotype, 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 locality references:

  Mathews, G.M. 1913. A List of the Birds of Australia containing the names and synonyms connected with each genus, species, and subspecies of birds found in Australia, at present known to the author. London : Witherby xxvii 453 pp.
• Cacatoes leadbeateri mungi Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [264] [holotype figured on pl. 288 and described in detail on p. 191 in Mathews, G.M. 1917. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 6 pt 2 pp. 105–216 pls 283–290 [6 Feb. 1917 Mathews, G.M. 1925. The Birds of Australia. Supplements 4 & 5. Bibliography of the Birds of Australia Pts 1 & 2. London : H.F. & G. Witherby viii 149 pp.]].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 619718 ♂ adult (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. 9374), Mungi Rock Hole, SE of Babrongan Tower on Jurgurra Creek, east Edgar Ranges, north WA (as North-West Australia (Mungi))
  Comment: for identification and locality of holotype, 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.
• Cacatua leadbeateri aberrans Söderberg, R. 1912. Cacatua leadbeateri aberrans eine neue subspecies. Oriental Insects 20: 41-42 [41].

  Type data:

   Holotype NHRM ♂ adult, Mowla Downs, c. 120 km south of junction of Gilgally Creek and Fitzroy River, north WA.
• Lophochroa leadbeateri superflua Mathews, G.M. 1917. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 6 pts 2 pp.105-516 pls 283-324. [Date published Sept. 1917: publication dated as 1916–1917] [196] [for identification and locality of holotype, 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:

   Holotype AMNH 619736 ♂ adult (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. unspecified), Yardea (Long Dam), Gawler Ranges, SA (as Gawler Ranges).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Schodde, R. 1993. The bird fauna of western New South Wales: geography and status. pp. 107-121 in Lunney, D. (ed.). The Future of Native Fauna in Western New South Wales. Sydney : Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales / Surrey Beatty. [113]

 

Generic Combinations

• Cacatua (Lophochroa) leadbeateri mollis (Mathews, 1912). —
  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. [99]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Fringes of main sandy deserts through inland W Australia, south-west to northern wheatbelt of WA from Murchison River and Jurien Bay to Northam, Norseman and southern wooded fringe of the Nullarbor Plain—south-east around fringes of Nullarbor Plain to central Eyre Peninsula (Kyancutta-Kimba), SA, occasionally reaching its east coast (Cowell-Port Augusta)—north-east along western fringes of Lake Eyre basin to the central Australian ranges, NT (Macdonnell, Jervois, Reynolds and Davenport-Murchison Ranges) and Tanami Desert—and north-west to eastern fringes of the Pilbara, WA (which is avoided) and the south and east sectors of the Great Sandy Desert as far as the Edgar Ranges, Mary River, Gardiner Range and upper Victoria River, WA-NT.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NT, SA, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Burt Plain (BRT), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Murchison (MUR), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, W plateau
  • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, S Gulfs, W plateau
  • Western Australia: NW coastal, SW coastal, W plateau

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, arthropod-feeder, diurnal, granivore, gregarious, hummock grassland, low open woodland, low woodland, nomadic, open scrub, resident, tall open shrubland, terrestrial, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, feeds communally on ground or in trees on seeds and also on larval wood-borers, flocks out of breeding, flies with regular, even wing beats with some gliding, nests in territorial pairs in tree hollows lined with wood debris, both parents incubate and feed yellow-downed chicks, wanders regionally to seasonal food sources.

 

General References

Parker, S.A. 1970. Critical notes on the status of some Northern Territory birds. South Australian Ornithologist 25: 115-125 [Duncan, F.M. 1937. On the dates of publication of the Society's 'Proceedings', 1859–1926. With an appendix containing the dates of publication of 'Proceedings', 1830–1858, compiled by the late F.H. Waterhouse, and of the 'Transactions', 1833–1869, by the late Henry Peavot, originally published in P.Z.S. 1893, 1913. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 107: 71–84] (centralian distribution)

Rowley, I. & Chapman, G. 1991. The breeding biology, food, social organization, demography and conservation of the Major Mitchell or Pink Cockatoo, Cacatua leadbeateri, on the margin of the Western Australian Wheatbelt. Australian Journal of Zoology 39: 211-261 (distribution, social organisation, diet, feeding, breeding biology, conservation status)

 

History of changes

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