Subspecies Phaps (Phaps) elegans elegans (Temminck, 1809)

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• Columba elegans Temminck, C.J. 1809. Histoire Naturelle générale des Pigeons. Peintes par Mademoiselle Pauline de Courcelles. Paris : Garnery ix 41 128 30 xvi iii pp. 59 pls. [livr. 9; publication dated as 1808–1811] [(livr. 6) 56] [based on specimens collected on the Baudin expedition to Australia, and from a specimen received by C.J. Temminck from the Joseph Banks collection in London, see also Stresemann, E. 1951. Type localities of Australian birds collected by the 'Expedition Baudin' (1801–1803). Emu 51: 65–70; for account of involved publication and establishment of authorship, see entry under Streptopelia chinensis tigrina (Temminck, 1809); syntype figured on pl. 22 in original publication].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) MNHP 11691 ♂ adult, D'Entrecasteaux Channel, TAS (as la terre de Diemen …les parages du canal D'Entrecasteaux); MNHP 11693 ♀ adult (sexed as ♂), D'Entrecasteaux Channel, TAS (as la terre de Diemen …les parages du canal D'Entrecasteaux); RMNH (institution uncertain, C.J. Temminck Cabinet 60 cat. no. 1), D'Entrecasteaux Channel, TAS (as la terre de Diemen …les parages du canal D'Entrecasteaux).

  Type locality references:

  Mathews, G.M. 1912. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 1 xiv 301 pp. pls 1-67. [6 parts; published between 1910–1912; publication dated as 1910–1911]; Stresemann, E. 1951. Type localities of Australian birds collected by the 'Expedition Baudin' (1801–1803). The Emu 51: 65-70.
• Columba lawsonii Siebers, F.W. 1825. Vögel aus Neuholland. Isis Oken 1825(1): Beylage No. 1 [Beylage no. 1] [nom. nud., published in a price list of Australian birds; referred to synonymy of Columba elegans Temminck by Wagler, J. 1827. Systema Avium. Pars prima. Stuttgart and Tubingen : J.G. Cottae 411 (unpaginated) pp. (Columba sp. 58)—but unavailable under ICZN Arts 11(d) & (e)].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s).
• Phaps elegans neglecta Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [188].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 615951 ♂ (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. 6900), Long Bay, Sydney, NSW
  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.
• Phaps elegans affinis Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [188].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 615941 ♂ (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. 157), Emu Well, Yorke Peninsula, SA
  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.

  Type locality references:

  Condon, H.T. 1951. Notes on the birds of South Australia: occurrence, distribution and taxonomy. South Australian Ornithologist 20: 26-68.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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. [47]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

South-east coastal regions and adjacent ranges to summit ridges of Great Dividing Range, north to Wide Bay and Fraser Is., QLD, and south-west and west to Kangaroo Is. and Streaky Bay, Eyre Peninsula, SA—also TAS and Bass Strait islands, rare vagrant to Lord Howe Is.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tanami (TAN), 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), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, NE coastal
  • South Australia: S Gulfs, SE coastal, W plateau
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: SE coastal
  • Western Australia: W plateau

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, diurnal, granivore, low shrubland, low woodland, nomadic, open heath, resident, tall forest, terrestrial, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Randomly dispersed, seasonal breeder, sexually dimorphic, feeds on ground on seeds in heaths and dense shrubberies, with or without overtopping sclerophyll forest, flies with even wing-beats, nests on or near ground in or under low bushes and trees, sedentary or wanders locally to seasonal food sources.

 

General References

Frith, H.J., Wolfe, T.O. & Barker, R.D. 1976. Food of eight species of Columbidae, in the genera Geopelia, Phaps, Geophaps and Petrophassa. Australian Wildlife Research 3: 159-171 (diet)

Goodwin, D. 1983. Pigeons and Doves of the World. Ithaca : Cornell University Press 363 pp. 3 pls. (distribution, general behaviour, biology)

Schodde, R. 1965. Observations on new distribution and habitat of five Australian land birds. The Emu 64: 204-208 (distribution, habitat)

 

History of changes

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