Subspecies Ocyphaps lophotes whitlocki Mathews, 1912

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ocyphaps lophotes whitlocki Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [191] [holotype not specified in original description].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AMNH 615966 ♀ (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. unspecified), Milly Pool, c. 30 km NW of Wiluna, WA (as East Murchison, South-West Australia); AMNH 615967 ♀ (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. unspecified), Milly Pool, c. 30 km NW of Wiluna, WA (as East Murchison, South-West Australia)
  Comment: for identification of syntypes, 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:

  Schodde, R. in Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1997. Aves (Columbidae to Coraciidae). In, Houston, W.W.K. & Wells, A. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia Vol. 37.2 xiii 440 pp. [42] (from itinerary of collector, see Whitlock, F.L. 1910. On the East Murchison. Four months collecting trip. Emu 9: 181–219).

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Central and N WA, and adjacent parts of NT and SA, all W Australia except extreme wet south-west (south-west of Busselton-Manjimup-Denmark), north to SW Kimberley Division (Dampier Land), east to western fringes of Great Sandy, Gibson and Great Victoria Deserts and Nullarbor Plain, with outliers along east margins of those deserts from southern Kimberley Division to west central Australian Ranges (Rawlinson-Petermann and Warburton-Tompkinson-Mann Ranges). Intergrades with O. l. lophotes (Temminck, 1822) on broad front on eastern margins of range from central Kimberley Division through E Great Victoria, Gibson and Great Sandy Deserts to west central Australian Ranges as detailed under that subpsecies.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NT, SA, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory
  • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, W plateau
  • Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal, SW coastal, W plateau

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, diurnal, folivore, granivore, gregarious, low open shrubland, low open woodland, low woodland, open scrub, sedentary, tall open shrubland, terrestrial, tussock grassland, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder/opportunistic breeder, ground-feeding seed-eater in open, often well-grassed woodland, flies with whistling flap-and-glide flight, roosts and nests in trees, wanders locally to seasonal food sources.

 

General References

Goodwin, D. 1974. Columbidae. In, Hall, B.P. (ed.). Birds of the Harold Hall Australian Expeditions 1962–70. A report on the collections made for the British Museum (Natural History). Results of the Harold Hall Australian Expeditions. London : British Museum Vol. 33 xi 396 pp., 10 pls col. pl. map. (behaviour, diet, reproductive cycle, geographic variation)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)