Subspecies Ninox (Ninox) novaeseelandiae undulata (Latham, 1801)

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• Strix undulata Latham, J. 1801. Supplementum Indicis Ornithologici, sive Systematis Ornithologiae. London : G. Leigh, J. & S. Sotheby 74 pp. [17] [as Str. undulata; based on the Undulated Owl in Latham, J. 1802. Supplement II. to the General Synopsis of Birds. London : Leigh, Sotheby & Son 376 pp. pls CXX–CXL [publication dated as 1801] (Additions, p. 368), in turn described from details supplied by Philip Gidley King, commandant at Norfolk Island 1788–1796; for seniority of name, see Mathews, G.M. 1933. On the name of the Boobook Owl and on the genera Emblema and Paranectris. Ibis 3 3: 353 [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 whereabouts unknown (lost), Norfolk Island (as Insula Norfolk maris Pacifici).
• Ninox boobook royana Mathews, G.M. 1912. Additions and corrections to my Reference List. Austral Avian Records 1(5): 118-120 [Date published 24 Dec 1912] [120] [holotype inferred but not specified in original description; accordingly, all specimens of this form in the G.M. Mathews collection in AMNH taken before the date of publication, Dec. 1912, are syntypes—these are specified by 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; lectotypification subsequently effected under ICZN Art. 74(a), but lectotype may not be the specimen nominated by Mees, G.F. 1964. A revision of the Australian owls (Strigidae and Tytonidae). Zoologische Verhandelingen 65: 1–62 [29], a female according to 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:

   Lectotype AMNH no. unspecified ♂ (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. unspecified), Red Road, Mt Pitt, Norfolk Island (as Norfolk Island).
  Paralectotype(s) AMNH 630548–630559 (excluding lectotype—G.M. Mathews' coll. nos. unspecified).

  Subsequent designation references:

  Mathews, G.M. 1928. The Birds of Norfolk & Lord Howe Islands and the Australasian South Polar Quadrant with Additions to "The Birds of Australia". London : H.F. & G. Witherby xii 139 pp. pls 1-45. [22].

  Type locality references:

  Mathews, G.M. 1928. The Birds of Norfolk & Lord Howe Islands and the Australasian South Polar Quadrant with Additions to "The Birds of Australia". London : H.F. & G. Witherby xii 139 pp. pls 1-45. [22] (by lectotypification).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Mees, G.F. 1964. A revision of the Australian owls (Strigidae and Tytonidae). Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 65: 1-62 [29]

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Norfolk Island, hybridised population with N. n. novaeseelandiae

Other Regions

Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, arthropod-feeder, carnivorous, closed forest, nocturnal, predator, sedentary, territorial, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Randomly dispersed, seasonal breeder, general carnivore, roosts by day in tree canopy or hollow, hunts by night in perch-and-pounce sallies.

General References

Hermes, N., Evans, O. & Evans, B. 1986. Norfolk Island birds: a review 1985. Notornis 33: 141-149 [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)] (status)

Mathews, G.M. 1928. The Birds of Norfolk & Lord Howe Islands and the Australasian South Polar Quadrant with Additions to "The Birds of Australia". London : H.F. & G. Witherby xii 139 pp. pls 1-45. (morphology, status)

Norman, J.A., Olsen, P.D. & Christidis, L. 1998b. Molecular genetics confirms taxonomic affinities of the endangered Norfolk Island Boobook Ninox novaeseelandiae undulata. Biological Conservation 86: 33-36

Schodde, R., Fullagar, P. & Hermes, N. 1983. A Review of Norfolk Island Birds: Past and Present. Canberra : Aust. Natl Parks Wldlf. Serv. Spec. Publ. 8 viii (un-numbered) 119 pp. (occurrence, status, roosting, taxonomy (error in wing shape))

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