Subspecies Platycercus (Violania) icterotis icterotis (Temminck & Kuhl, 1820)

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• Psittacus icterotis Temminck, C.J. & Kuhl, H. in Kuhl, H. 1820. Conspectus Psittacorum. Cum specierum definitionibus, novarum descriptionibus, synonymis et circa patriam singularum naturalem adversariis, adjecto indice museorum, ubi earum artificiosae exuviae servantur. Nova Acta Physico-Medica Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae 10: 1-104 pls I-III [54] [although authorship of name usually attributed to Kuhl alone, Kuhl specifies 'Temminck and Kuhl' in the original description; based on three specimens, the provenance of which remains uncertain—Mathews, G.M. 1917. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 6 pt 4 pp. 297–372 pls 300–307 [27 June 1917, volume dated as 1916–1917] (331) points out that, from their deposition in Paris and Leiden, they were collected by early French expeditions, probably either by J.A.R. de B. D'Entrecasteaux's in late 1792 or N. Baudin's through mid 1801 and early 1803, both of which collected between Jurien Bay and the Recherche Archipelago in the range of this species; restriction by Mathews, G.M. 1917. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 6 pt 4 pp. 297–372 pls 300–307 [27 June 1917, volume dated as 1916–1917] of the type locality to Albany (=King George Sound) is therefore logical, cf. Temminck, C.J. 1821. Account of some new species of birds of the genera Psittacus and Columba, in the Museum of the Linnean Society. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 13: 107–130 [publication dated as 1822] (under Psittacus icterotis Temminck, 1821), 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 (555); and Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171–455 [publication dated Jan. 1912, published 31 Jan.], all of whom record different, often absurd localities; although Albany is in an area where green-backed southwest populations of this species begin to intergrade with the greyer and redder-backed more easterly and inland form, the description of the type series—'latere superiori virescente'—clearly indicates the green-backed form, so fixing the application of the name; BMNH 1863.6.7.9 cited erroneously as 'type 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 (555), see Warren, R.L.M. 1966. Type-specimens of Birds in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. 1 Non-Passerines. London : British Museum ix 320 pp.].

  Type data:

   Lectotype RMNH unsexed (ex C.J. Temminck Cabinet), Albany (=King George Sound), WA (as Nova Hollandia).
  Paralectotype(s) MNHP unsexed.

  Subsequent designation references:

  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] [335].

  Type locality references:

  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] [335] (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 icterotis Temminck, C.J. 1821. Account of some new species of birds of the genera Psittacus and Columba, in the Museum of the Linnean Society. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 13: 107-130 [publication dated as 1822] [120] [junior primary homonym and junior objective synonym of Psittacus icterotis Temminck & Kuhl, 1820 (q.v.), being based on same material and submitted independently for publication, see entries under H. Kuhl and C.J. Temminck in 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.; and Whittell, H.M. 1954. The Literature of Australian Birds: a History and Bibliography of Australian Ornithology. Perth : Paterson Brokensha xi 116 788 pp.].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) RMNH unsexed (ex C.J. Temminck Cabinet), Albany (=King George Sound), WA (as environs de Port Jackson à la côte orientale de la Nouvelle Hollande); MNHP unsexed (=London Markets, lost), Albany (=King George Sound), WA (as environs de Port Jackson à la côte orientale de la Nouvelle Hollande).

  Type locality references:

  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] [335] (under Psittacus icterotis Kuhl, 1820; 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 stanleyii Vigors, N.A. 1830. Notice on some new species of birds. Zoological Journal London 5: 273-275 [published June] [273] [as Stanleyii; also as incorrect subsequent spelling, stanleyi, e.g., 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; based on an adult male acquired by the Zoological Society of London per N.A. Vigors and evidently figured on pl. 23 in Lear, E. 1830. Illustrations of the family of Psittacidae, or Parrots: the greater part of them species hitherto unfigured, containing forty-two lithographic plates, drawn from life, and on stone. London : E. Lear 42 pls pp. [Pt II, published Nov-Dec. 1830, publication dated as 1830–1832]; holotype not cited as in BMNH 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 (555); 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.; Warren, R.L.M. 1966. Type-specimens of Birds in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. 1 Non-Passerines. London : British Museum ix 320 pp.; description matches southwest coastal form].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown (probably lost, ex Zoological Society of London coll., figured on pl. 23 in Lear, E. 1830. Illustrations of the family of Psittacidae, or Parrots: the greater part of them species hitherto unfigured, containing forty-two lithographic plates, drawn from life, and on stone. London : E. Lear 42 pls pp. [Pt II, published Nov-Dec. 1830, publication dated as 1830–1832]), Albany (=King George Sound), WA (as Australia).

  Type locality references:

  Mathews, G.M. 1917. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 6 pts 1-6 xix 516 pp. pls 275-324. [Date published June 1917: publication dated as 1916–1917] (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 icterotis salvadori Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [273] [holotype figured on pl. 303 (bottom) and described in detail on p. 330 in Mathews, G.M. 1917. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 6 pt 4 pp. 297–372 pls 300–307 [27 June 1917, volume dated as 1916–1917]].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 622907 ♂ (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. 4858), Wilsons Inlet, southwest WA
  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:

  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

• Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. [196-197]

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Coastal and subcoastal far SW Australia, north on W coast to near Mandurah, east on south coast to about Albany, and inland to a front from Pinjarra to Boyup Brook and Mt Barker, north and east of which there is rather abrupt intergradation with P. i. xanthogenys Salvadori, 1891.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Western Australia: SW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, diurnal, florivore, frugivorous, granivore, gregarious, open forest, sedentary, tall forest, terrestrial, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, sexually dimorphic, in eucalypt forests and woodlands and their edges, mainly in jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata) belt, feeds mainly on seeds arboreally and on ground, often flocks in small groups, flies in shallow undulations bringing wings in to side of body, nests on bed of wood dust/debris in tree hollows, incubation by female, both sexes rear pale grey-downed, yellowish-billed chicks, wanders locally to seasonal food sources.

General References

Forshaw, J.M. 1981. Australian Parrots. 2nd (revised) Edn. Illustrated by W.T. Cooper. Melbourne : Lansdowne Edns 312 pp. 56 pls. (general biology, references)

Long, J.L. 1984. The diets of three species of parrots in the south of Western Australia. Australian Wildlife Research 11: 357-371 [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. & Iredale, T. 1915. On the ornithology of the Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles (Levrault). Austral Avian Records 3: 5–20] (diet)

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