Species Gerygone modesta Pelzeln, 1860

Museums

Regional Maps

• Gerygone modesta von Pelzeln, A. 1860. Zur ornithologie der insel Norfolk. Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien 41: 319-332 [320].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) NMW 51.157 adult unsexed, Norfolk Island; NMW (Destroyed), Norfolk Island.

  Type locality references:

  Schifter, H. 1992. Die Vögel aus dem Nachlaß Ferdinand Lucas Baue im Naturhistorischen Museum Wien und die darunter befindlichen Typen. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 93(B): 41-57 [44].
• Gerygone mathewsae Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [449] ["Gerygone mathewsae was a nomen novum provided by Mathews (1912) for Gerygone modesta Pelzeln, 1860 (not Gould). Apparently, Pelzeln’s name was not preoccupied by any name proposed by Gould" (LeCroy, 2008)].

  Secondary source:

   LeCroy, M. 2008. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, and Petroicidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313(7): 1-298 [182].

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Norfolk Island only

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Norfolk Island Province (21)

Other Regions

Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Broadleaf thicket/shrubland, human habitation, subtropical rainforest.

 

General References

Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 2008. Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 288 pp. [31] (full species status)

Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1999. The Directory of Australian Birds : Passerines. A Taxonomic and Zoogeographic Atlas of the Biodiversity of Birds in Australia and its Territories. Collingwood, Australia : CSIRO Publishing x 851 pp. (as subspecies of ingata)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Nov-2020	AVES	26-Oct-2022	MODIFIED
31-Oct-2018	ACANTHIZIDAE Bonaparte, 1854	17-Dec-2014	MODIFIED	Dr Wayne Longmore
		12-Feb-2010	(import)