Species Sericulus (Sericulus) chrysocephalus (Lewin, 1808)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Meliphaga chrysocephala Lewin, J. 1808. Birds of New Holland with their Natural History. London : White & Bagster 22 pp. [Date published Sep 1808] [10].

  Type data:

   Holotype Plate 6 (type specimen based on colour plate), NSW: Patterson's River (= Hunter River).
• Oriolus regens Quoy, J.R.C. & Gaimard, J.P. in Freycinet, L. 1824. Voyage autour du Monde, Enterpris par Ordre du Roi. Éxecuté sur les corvettes de S.M. l'Uranie et la Physicienne, pendant les années 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820. Zoologie. Vol. III. Paris : Pillet Aîné 2 Vols 712 pp. Atlas 15 pp. 96 pls. [105].
• Paradisea imperialis Siebers, F.W. 1825. Vögel aus Neuholland. Isis Oken 1825(1): Beylage No. 1 [1].
• Meliphaga auricapilla Stephens, J.F. 1826. In, General Zoology or Systematic Natural History, commenced by the late George Shaw, M.D.F.R.S. & C. Aves. London : J. & A. Arch etc. Vol. XIV Pt I 385 pp. pls 1-41. [published late 1826] [262].
• Meliphaga regia Voigt, F.S. 1831. Das Thierreich, geordnet nach seiner Organisation. Als Grundlage der Naturgeschichte der Thiere und Einleitung in die vergleichende Anatomie. Von Baron von Cuvier. Leipzig : F.A. Brockhaus Vol. 1 xlviii 975 pp. [505].
• Sericulus magnirostris Gould, J. 1838. A Synopsis of the Birds of Australia, and the Adjacent Islands. London : J. Gould 8 pp., 73 pls. [Pt 3, published Apr. 1838, publication dated as 1837–1838] [2].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ANSP 3190 ♀, New South Wales.
• Sericulus chrysocephalus rothschildi Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [441].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 679359 ♂, Qld: Blackall Range.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Restricted to north-east New South Wales north to mid east Queensland.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Broadleaf thicket/shrubland, subtropical 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. (Regent Bowerbird)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Nov-2020	PASSERIFORMES	18-Feb-2014	MODIFIED	Dr Federica Turco (QM)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)