Subspecies Macropygia (Macropygia) phasianella robinsoni Mathews, 1912

Museums

Regional Maps

• Macropygia phasianella robinsoni Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [185] [type locality assigned in error to Alexandria, NT (as Alexandra) by 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. and in later publications].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 613168 ♂ adult (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. 9373), Mt Abbot or Mount Elliot districts, NE QLD (as Northern Territory)
  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:

  Cooper, R.P. 1962. A revision of the distribution of the Brown Pigeon. The Emu 61: 253-269; 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.

  Secondary source:

   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.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

East coast and adjacent ranges north to about Cooktown and Battle Camp Range, south to Mackenzie-Dawson-Fitzroy Rivers basin, and inland to coast scarps of Great Dividing Range, mainly at higher elevations above 300 m N of 20ºS; probably integrades with M. a. quinkan Schodde, 1989 in pockets around Princess Charlotte Bay and with M. a. phasianella (Temminck, 1821) through Mackenzie-Dawson-Fitzroy basin.

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, 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)

Crome, F.H.J. 1975. The ecology of fruit pigeons in tropical northern Queensland. Australian Wildlife Research 2: 155-185 (movements, diet, feeding ecology, habitat)

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

 

History of changes

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)