Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Northern Kimberley (NK), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

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. [16] (Scrub Fowl)

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. (Orange-footed Scrubfowl)

Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 2008. Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 288 pp. [14] (Orange-footed Scrubfowl)

History of changes

• Megapodius freycinet castanonotus Mayr, E. 1938. Birds collected during the Whitney South Sea Expedition. XXXIX. Notes on New Guinea birds. IV. American Museum Novitates 1006: 1-16 [8].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 200364 Skin, Babinda Creek, Cairns, Queensland [17°20'S 145°57'E]
  Comment: Adult female.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Cape Tribulation to around Yeppon, QLD

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

History of changes

• Megapodius reinwardt Dumont, C.H.F. 1823. In, Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles, dans lequel on traite méthodiquement des différens êtres de la nature, considérés soit en eux-mêmes, d'après l'état actuel de nos connaissances, soit relativement à l'utilité qu'en peuvent retirer la médecine, l'agriculture, le commerce et les arts. Suivi d'une biographie des plus célèbres naturalistes. Par Plusieurs Professeurs du Jardin du Roi, et des principales Écoles de Paris. Paris : F.G. Levrault Vol. 29. [416].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHNN A.C. n° 11 808, N.C. n° 1 211 Skin, New Guinea.
• Megapodius assimilis Masters, G. 1876. Zoology of the Chevert. Ornithology. Part 1. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1 1: 44-64.

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) 0.45420 Skin (Immature female), Dungeness Island, Torres Strait; 0.45421 Skin (Immature female), Dungeness Island, Torres Strait.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Zagai (Dungeness) Island, Torres Strait

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

History of changes

• Megapodius tumulus Gould, J. 1842. The Birds of Australia. London : J. Gould Vol. 5. [pl. 579].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ANSP ANSP 12770 Skin, Port Essington, Northern Territory; ANSP ANSP 12771 Skin (Juvenile), Port Essington, Northern Territory.
• Megapodius duperryii melvillensis Mathews, G.M. 1912. Additions and corrections to my Reference List to the Birds of Australia. Austral Avian Records 1(2): 25-52 [Date published 2 Apr 1912] [26].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 539065 Skin, Melville Island, Northern Territory.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Northern Kimberley region of WA and northern NT east to Groote Eylandt

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

NT, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Northern Kimberley (NK), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Distribution References

History of changes

• Megapodius reinwardt yorki Mathews, G.M. 1929. Untitled. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 50(335): 10-11 [Date published 31 Oct 1929] [11].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 539081 Skin, Cedar Bay, about 30 miles south of Cooktown, Queensland [15°49'S 145°22'E].

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Cape York, QLD, south to Mitchell River in the west and Cooktown in the east, and islands off the N and E of northern Australia

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP)

Distribution References

History of changes