Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Subspecies Macropygia (Macropygia) phasianella phasianella (Temminck, 1821)

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CAVS: 8826

Subspecies Macropygia (Macropygia) phasianella phasianella (Temminck, 1821)

  • Type data:
     Holotype BMNH 1863.7.6.15 ♂ imm., near Port Jackson, NSW (as Nouvelle Hollande, dans l'intérieur, vers le Port Jackson)
    Comment: for identification and deposition of holotype, see Salvadori, T. 1893. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Columbae, or Pigeons. London : British Museum Vol. 21 xvii 676 pp. XV pls (350); Sharpe, R.B. 1906. Birds. pp. 79–515 in, The History of the Collections contained in the Natural History Departments of the British Museum. London : British Museum Vol. 2. (414-415); Warren, R.L.M. 1966. Type-specimens of Birds in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. 1 Non-Passerines. London : British Museum ix 320 pp.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria


Extra Distribution Information

East coast and adjacent ranges north to Mackenzie-Dawson-Fitzroy Rivers basin, QLD, south to about Mallacoota, VIC, and inland to coast scarps of Great Dividing Range. Intergrades with M. a. robinsoni Mathews, 1912 through the Mackenzie-Dawson-Fitzroy Rivers basin, QLD.


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

NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • New South Wales: SE coastal
    • Queensland: NE coastal
    • Victoria: SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, closed forest, diurnal, frugivorous, granivore, gregarious, nomadic, tall forest, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Randomly dispersed, seasonal breeder/opportunistic breeder, sexually dimorphic, feeds mainly arboreally on fruit and seeds in and particularly on edges of rainforest and vine scrub and mesophyll forest galleries in eucalypt forest, nests in trees and tall bushes, wanders locally to seasonal flushes of food.

 

General References

Cooper, R.P. 1962. A revision of the distribution of the Brown Pigeon. The Emu 61: 253-269 (distribution, history, taxonomy, anecdotal observations on diet, call, nidification)

Frith, H.J. 1977. Some display postures of Australian pigeons. Ibis 119: 167-182 (behaviour)

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
05-Apr-2019 Macropygia Swainson, 1837 19-Mar-2019 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)