Subspecies Ninox (Hieracoglaux) connivens peninsularis Salvadori, 1876
- Ninox peninsularis Salvadori, T. 1876. Descrizione di due nuove specie di uccelli del Capo York. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 7: 991-992 [publication dated 1875] [992].
Type data:
Syntype(s) MCG C.E.21650 unsexed, Somerset, Cape York, QLD (as Caput York, presso Somerset); MCG C.E.21651 unsexed, Somerset, Cape York, QLD (as Caput York, presso Somerset); MCG C.E.24884 unsexed, Somerset, Cape York, QLD (as Caput York, presso Somerset)
Comment: for identification of syntypes, see Arbocco, G., Capocaccia, L. & Violani, C. 1979. Catalogo dei tipi di uccelli del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Genova 82: 184–265. - Ninox connivens occidentalis Ramsay, E.P. 1887. List of Western Australian birds collected by Mr Cairn, and Mr. W.H. Boyer-Bower, at Derby and its vicinity, with remarks on the species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 1: 1085-1100 [publication dated as 1886] [1086] [as Ninox connivens-occidentalis; based on two specimens with locality deduced from title, and described as a variety of Ninox connivens (Latham, 1802); for identification of type material, see Longmore, N.W. 1991. Type specimens of birds in the Australian Museum. Technichal Report of the Australian Museum n 4: 1–42: Ramsay had labelled AM O.328 as 'type' but never published his choice: accordingly, lectotypification is effected under ICZN Art. 74(a)].
Type data:
Lectotype AM 0.329 unsexed, Derby, inland from Kimberley, WA.
Paralectotype(s) AM 0.328 unsexed.Subsequent designation references:
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.Type locality references:
Longmore, N.W. 1991. Type specimens of birds in the Australian Museum. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum n 4: 1-42. - Ninox connivens suboccidentalis Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [255] [holotype figured on pl. 264 and described in detail on pp. 336–337 in Mathews, G.M. 1916. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 5 pts 2–4 pp. 153–440 pls 245–274 [May 1916, publication dated as 1915–1916]].
Type data:
Holotype AMNH 630338 ♀ (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. 909), Port Keats, NT (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.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1981. Nocturnal Birds of Australia. Illustrated by Jeremy Boot. Melbourne : Lansdowne Edns 136 pp. 22 pls. [publication dated as 1980] [52]
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Coastal to near inland N Australia, south-west in Pilbara to Gascoyne River and inland to upper Ashburton and Oakover Rivers, WA, all Kimberley Division south to Frazier Downs, Sturt Greek and Negri River, WA, upper NT north of Tanami Desert and Barkly Tableland, and wooded sectors of Gulf drainage and Cape York Peninsula, QLD, south to Selwyn Range in west and upper Flinders, Gregory, Gilbert, Lynd, Mitchell and Endeavour Rivers in east—also main south-west islands in Torres Strait. Apparently intergrades with N. c. connivens (Latham, 1802) along and immediately south of Forsyth Range and upper Flinders, Gregory and Gilbert Rivers to Endeavour River, QLD.
IBRA
NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gascoyne (GAS), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)
Ecological Descriptors
Arboreal, carnivorous, closed forest, crepuscular, mangrove, nocturnal, open forest, predator, sedentary, tall forest, territorial, volant, woodland.
Extra Ecological Information
Randomly dispersed, seasonal breeder, general carnivore, usually in territorial pairs, roosts arboreally in dense foliage by day, hunts by night in perch-and-pounce sallies through open eucalypt forest and woodland, paperbark (Melaleuca) galleries, and vine forest, keeping to galleries of taller eucalypts along streams in Pilbara, nests in tree hollows at medium height.
General References
Mees, G.F. 1963. The status and distribution of some species of owls in Western Australia. Western Australian Naturalist 8: 166-169 [publication date Mathews, G.M. 1920. Dates of ornithological works. Austral Avian Records 4: 1–27 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. Zimmer, J.T. 1926. Catalogue of the Edward E. Ayer Ornithological Library. Field Museum of Natural History Publications, Zoological Series 16: 1–364 (Pt 1, Publ. 239), 365–706 (Pt 2, Publ. 240)] (distribution, status)
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 10-Nov-2020 | AVES | 11-Jan-2024 | MODIFIED | |
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |