• Timixos Blyth, E. 1842. Notes on various Indian and Malayan birds, with Descriptions of some presumed new Species. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 11: 195 [194].

  Type species:

   Timixos meruloides Blyth, 1842 by monotypy (= Pachycephala olivacea Vigors & Horsfield, 1827).
• Gilbertornis Mathews, G.M. 1912. New generic names for Australian birds. Austral Avian Records 1: 105-117 [Date published 24 Dec 1912] [110].

  Type species:

   Pachycephala rufogularis Gould, 1841 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA

ACT, NSW, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP) ; NSW, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL) ; NSW, SA, Vic, WA: Channel Country (CHC), Finke (FIN), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal, W plateau
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: SE coastal
  • Western Australia: SW coastal, W plateau

History of changes

• Pachycephala inornata Gould, J. 1841. In Proceedings of meeting of Zoological Society of London, Nov. 24, 1840. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1840: 159-165 [Date published July 1841: publication dated 1840] [164].
• Gilbertornis gilberti mallee Mathews, G.M. 1915. Additions and corrections to my List of the Birds of Australia. Austral Avian Records 2: 123-133 [Date published 129] [130].
• Pachycephala gilbertii Gould, J. 1844. Untitled. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 1844(12): 103-107 [Date published Oct 1844] [107].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ANSP 15256 adult ♂, WA: interior.
  Paralectotype(s) ANSP 15257 adult ♀, WA: interior.
• Pachycephala gilberti Gould, J. 1865. Handbook to the Birds of Australia. London : J. Gould Vol. 1 viii 636 pp. [Date published Sep 1865] [216] [emendation of Pachycephala gilbertii Gould, 1844 — deemed identical: ICdZN Art.58.14].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA

NSW, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin
  • South Australia
  • Victoria
  • Western Australia: SW coastal, W plateau

Ecological Descriptors

Casuarina-cypress woodland, mallee (Eucalyptus) woodland.

Common Name References

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. (Gilbert's Whistler)

History of changes

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

In ACT uncommon breeding resident/altitudinal migrant

IBRA

ACT, NSW, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP) ; NSW, Vic: NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • South Australia: SE coastal
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Low sclerophyll heath, subtropical rainforest, temperate rainforest, wet sclerophyll forest.

Common Name References

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. (Olive Whistler)

History of changes

• Pachycephala (Timixos) olivacea apatetes 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. [434].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANWC 44133 adult ♀, Tas: Woolnorth, SW of Montagu.

Distribution

States

Tasmania

IBRA

Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Tasmania

Ecological Descriptors

Low sclerophyll heath, subtropical rainforest, temperate rainforest, wet sclerophyll forest.

History of changes

• Pachycephala (Timixos) olivacea bathychroa 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. [433].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV B.23707 adult ♀ (formerly ANWC 46097), Vic: Wait-a-while Road, Otway Range.

Distribution

States

Victoria

IBRA

Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Victoria: SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Low sclerophyll heath, subtropical rainforest, temperate rainforest, wet sclerophyll forest.

History of changes

• Pachycephala (Timixos) olivacea hesperus 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. [434].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA B.30569 adult ♂, SA: 1 km north of Wooley's Lake, Beachport.

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria

IBRA

SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • South Australia: SE coastal
  • Victoria: SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Low sclerophyll heath, subtropical rainforest, temperate rainforest, wet sclerophyll forest.

History of changes

• Pachycephala olivacea macphersoniana White, H.L. 1920. New sub-species of Pachycephala olivacea. The Emu 19: 273 [Date published 1 Apr 1920] [273] [as macphersonianus, an adjective — corrected accordingly].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV HLW.1702 ♂, Qld: Macpherson Range.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

IBRA

NSW: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Low sclerophyll heath, subtropical rainforest, temperate rainforest, wet sclerophyll forest.

History of changes

• Pachycephala olivacea Vigors, N.A. & Horsfield, T. 1827. A description of the Australian birds in the collection of the Linnean Society; with an attempt at arranging them according to their natural affinities. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 15: 170-331 [Date published 17 Feb 1827: publication dated 1826] [241].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1863.7.7.41 adult ♂ (type locality selected by Schodde & Mason (1999)), Australia: south-east.

  Type locality references:

  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. [435] (type locality selection based on examination of plumage colour and pattern of the type in the BMNH).
• Pachycephala olivacea tregellasi Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [315].
• Timixos meruloides Blyth, E. 1842. Notes on various Indian and Malayan birds, with Descriptions of some presumed new Species. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 11: 195 [195].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

IBRA

NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Victoria

Ecological Descriptors

Low sclerophyll heath, subtropical rainforest, temperate rainforest, wet sclerophyll forest.

History of changes

• Pachycephala rufogularis Gould, J. 1841. In Proceedings of meeting of Zoological Society of London, Nov. 24, 1840. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1840: 159-165 [Date published July 1841: publication dated 1840] [164].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANSP 15255 ♂, South Australia.
• Gilbertornis rufogularis zanda Mathews, G.M. 1916. List of additions of new sub-species to, and changes in, my "List of the Birds of Australia". Austral Avian Records 3(3): 53-68 [Date published 4 Apr 1916] [59].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA

NSW, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin
  • South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal, W plateau
  • Victoria

Ecological Descriptors

Low sclerophyll heath, mallee (Eucalyptus) woodland.

Common Name References

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. (Red-lored Whistler)

History of changes