Subspecies Platycercus (Violania) eximius eximius Shaw, 1792

Museums

Regional Maps

• Psittacus eximius Shaw, G. in Shaw, G. & Nodder, F.P. (ill.) 1792. The Naturalist's Miscellany; or coloured figures of natural objects drawn and described immediately from nature. London : Nodder Vol. III pls 75-110. [pl. 93 of original description dated Feb. 1792] [text to pl. 93] [pl. 93 of original description dated Feb. 1792; type material unspecified, but almost certainly a specimen in the Leverian Museum received via Governor Arthur Phillip or Surgeon-General John White from the First Fleet settlement at Port Jackson—now untraced, following dispersal of Leverian Museum, see 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.; Whittell, H.M. 1954. The Literature of Australian Birds: a History and Bibliography of Australian Ornithology. Perth : Paterson Brokensha xi 116 788 pp. (439–440); Stresemann, E. 1975. Ornithology from Aristotle to the Present. [Transl. H.J. & C. Epstein, Cottrell, G.W. (ed.)]. Cambridge : Harvard University Press xii 432 pp. (120–121): not cited in museums receiving Leverian Museum collections, see von Pelzeln, A. 1873. On the birds in the Imperial Collection at Vienna obtained from the Leverian Museum. Ibis 3 3: 14–54; Von Pelzeln, A. 1873. On the birds in the Imperial Collection at Vienna obtained from the Leverian Museum. Part II. Ibis 3 3: 105–124; Wagstaffe, R. 1978. Type Specimens of Birds in the Merseyside County Museums. Liverpool : Merseyside County Museums, Merseyside County Council 33 pp.; holotype probably re-figured on plate 1, dated June 1793, in Shaw, G. 1794. Zoology of New Holland. pp. 33 pp. in Shaw, G. & Smith, J.E. (eds). Zoology and Botany of New Holland, and the isles adjacent. The figures by J. Sowerby, F.L.S. London : J. Sowerby Vol. 1].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown (dispersed and ?lost, ex Leverian Museum?, figured on pl. 93 in Shaw, G. & Nodder, F.P. (ill.) 1792. The Naturalist's Miscellany; or coloured figures of natural objects drawn and described immediately from nature. London : Nodder Vol. III pls 75–110 pp.), region of Port Jackson, NSW (as Nova Hollandia/New Holland).

  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. [180] (by reason of the fact that material of Australian birds reaching England in the early 1790s came from around the First Fleet settlement at Port Jackson, NSW, see Whittell, H.M. 1954. The Literature of Australian Birds: a History and Bibliography of Australian Ornithology. Perth : Paterson Brokensha xi 116 788 pp. [23–27]; cf. Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171–455 [publication dated Jan. 1912, published 31 Jan.]).
• Psittacus nonpareil Perry, G. 1810. Arcana; or The Museum of Natural History: containing the most recent discovered objects. Embellished with coloured plates, and corresponding descriptions; with extracts relating to animals, and remarks of celebrated travellers; combining a general survey of nature. London : J. Stratford Vol. 1 84 pls & accompanying text. [Publication dated as 1810–1811, pages and plates not numbered. See Mathews & Iredale (1912) for details of publication dates.] [text to pl. 9] [based in part on the Nonpareil Parrot (=Psittacus eximius Shaw, 1792 (q.v.)), and in part on a specimen in the collection of W. Bullock, since dispersed, see Sharpe, R.B. 1906. Birds. pp. 79–515 in, The History of the Collections contained in the Natural History Departments of the British Museum. London : British Museum Vol. 2.—that specimen could itself be the holotype of P. eximius Shaw, 1792, ex Leverian Museum, the bulk of which was acquired by the W. Bullock collection, see Stresemann, E. 1975. Ornithology from Aristotle to the Present. [Transl. H.J. & C. Epstein, Cottrell, G.W. (ed.)]. Cambridge : Harvard University Press xii 432 pp. (120–121)].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (?lost, ex W Bullock Museum figured on pl. 9 in Perry, G. 1810. Arcana; or The Museum of Natural History: containing the most recently discovered objects. Embellished with Coloured plates, and corresponding descriptions; with Extracts relating to Animals, and remarks of celebrated travellers; combining a general survey of Nature. London : J. Stratford Vol. 1 84 pls pp. [publication dated as 1810–1811] that of Psittacus eximius Shaw, 1792), Botany Bay (=region of Port Jackson), NSW (cf. Psittacus eximius Shaw, 1792).
• Psittacus omnicolor Bechstein, J.M. 1811. Kurze Uebersicht aller bekannten Vögel: oder ihre Kennzeichen der Art nach Lathams General Synopsis of Birds und seinem Index ornithologicus. Nürnberg : A.G. Schneider & Weigel iv 536 pp. 42 pls. [68] [junior homonym of Psittacus omnicolor Lichtenstein, 1793 (=Charmosyna papou (Scopoli, 1786)); based wholly or in part on la Perruche omnicolore on pls 28 & 29 in Levaillant, F. 1805. Histoire Naturelle des Perroquets. Paris : Levrault, Schoell & Ce Vol. 1 135 pp. pls 1–71 [published between 1801–1805]].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP (institution uncertain, figured on pl. 2 of original description and on pls 28 & 29 in Levaillant, F. 1805. Histoire Naturelle des Perroquets. Paris : Levrault, Schoell & Ce Vol. 1 135 pp. pls 1–71 [published between 1801–1805]), coastal southeast New South Wales (as Insel der Südsee).

  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. [180] (by reason of the fact that Bechstein's description and plate (above) represent the nominotypical form, the only material of which to reach Europe before 1805 came from coastal southeast NSW around Botany Bay and Port Jackson, cf. Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171–455 [publication dated Jan. 1912, published 31 Jan.]).
• Psittacus capitatus Shaw, G. 1812. General Zoology, or Systematic Natural History. Aves. London : Kearsley, Wilkie & Robinson Vol. VIII Pt 2 vi pp. 244-557 pls 46-84. [Date published 1811] [466] [based on the Lori Perruche de la mer de Sud described by J.J. Virey in Buffon, L. 1805. Histoire Naturelle Générale et Particulière. Nouvelle Edition, accompagnée de Notes, et dans laquelle les Supplémens sont insérés dans le premier texte, à la place qui leur convenient. Oiseaux. (C.S. Sonnini, ed.). Paris : F. Dufart. [published between 1800–1805]; although treated as unidentifiable by Finsch, O. 1868. Die Papageien, monographisch bearbeitet. Leiden : E.J. Brill Vol. 2 vii 996 pp. 5 pls (Appendix) and by Salvadori, T. 1891. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Psittaci, or Parrots. London : British Museum Vol. 20 xvii 658 pp. XVIII pls (607), the description matches this form, see also Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171–455 [publication dated Jan. 1912, published 31 Jan.] and subsequent revisions—so it is included provisionally in the synonymy of this subspecies].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown, coastal southeast New South Wales (as Southern islands).

  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. [180] (by reason of the fact that the meagre original description matches the nominotypical form, the only material of which to reach Europe before 1805 came from coastal southeast New South Wales around Botany Bay and Port Jackson, cf. Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171–455 [publication dated Jan. 1912, published 31 Jan.]).
• Platycercus eximius colei Mathews, G.M. 1917. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 6 pt 4 pp. 297-372 pls 300-307. [Date published 27 June 1917: volume dated as 1916–1917] [360].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 622864 ♂ (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. 343), Ballarat, VIC
  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.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Wolters, H.E. 1975. Die Vogelarten der Erde. Eine systematische Liste mit Verbreitungsangaben sowie deutschen und englischen Namen. Hamburg : Paul Parey Lief. 1, 1-80 pp. [67]
• 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. [181]
• 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. [181]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, diurnal, florivore, folivore, frugivorous, granivore, gregarious, low woodland, nomadic, open forest, resident, terrestrial, volant, woodland.

History of changes