Subspecies Pezoporus wallicus leachi Mathews, 1912

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pezoporus terrestris leachi Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [280] [holotype possibly figured on pl. 323 and described in detail on p. 487 in Mathews, G.M. 1917. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 6 pt 6 pp. 445–516 + xix pls 317–324 [11 Dec. 1917]].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 623826 ♀ (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. 4413), Tasmania
  Comment: for identification of holotype, 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.

 

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Centred in coastal and inland west and SW TAS and locally on north and east coast, including Hunter Is.—formerly King Is. and Flinders Ils and perhaps Kent Group

IBRA and IMCRA regions

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Folivore, granivore, gregarious, open heath, sedentary, swamp, terrestrial, tussock grassland, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, feeds on seeds among low wet heaths and button-grass (Mesomelaena) plains and flats, rather solitary, flies low and directly with wing beats punctuated by gliding on down-swept wings, nests on bed of grasses and stems on ground under shrubbery, rears blackish-downed, yellow-billed chicks (parental roles of sexes not established), sedentary or wanders altitudinally to seasonal food sources.

 

General References

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 (traits of Tasmanian form)

Newman, O.G.M. 1979. The Ground Parrot - census, calls, nest and movement. Tasmanian Bird Report 8: 4-6 [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. Mathews, G.M. 1911. On some necessary alterations in the nomenclature of birds. Pt II. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 1–22 [For publication date Mathews, G.M. 1913. New generic names, with some notes on others. Austral Avian Records 2: 55–62] Browning, M.R. & Monroe, B.L., Jr 1991. Clarifications and corrections of the dates of issue of some publications containing descriptions of North American birds. Arch. Nat. Hist. 18: 381–405] (distribution, status, voice, nidification)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Nov-2020	AVES	05-Nov-2020	MODIFIED
10-Nov-2020		01-Mar-2012	MODIFIED
10-Nov-2020		28-Feb-2012	MODIFIED
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