Subspecies Podargus ocellatus marmoratus Gould, 1855

Museums

Regional Maps

• Podargus marmoratus Gould, J. 1855. The Birds of Australia. Supplement. London : J. Gould Part 2 81 pls. [Date published Sept. 1855: publication dated 1969 in bound volume] [text to pl. 4] [erroneously quoted as published in Pt 4 (1867) of original publication by Whittell (1954) and Matthews (1925); syntypes (male, female) illustrated on plate 4 of original publication].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 1855.4.11.26 ♂ (=♀) adult, Cape York opposite Albany Is., Cape York Peninsula (as Cape York Peninsula); BMNH no. unspecified ♂ (institution uncertain), Cape York opposite Albany Is., Cape York Peninsula (as Cape York Peninsula)
  Comment: for identification of syntypes, see Hartert, E. 1892. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Picariae. Coraciae. London : British Museum Vol. 16 xvi 703 pp. XIV pls [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. Zimmer, J.T. 1926. Catalogue of the Edward E. Ayer Ornithological Library. Field Museum of Natural History Publications, Zoological Series 16: 1–364 (Pt 1, Publ. 239), 365–706 (Pt 2, Publ. 240) (contrasting opinion) Sherborn, C.D. 1922. Index Animalium; sive, Index nominem quae ab A.D. 1758 generibus et speciebus animalium imposita sunt, societatibus eruditorum adiuvantibus. Sectio Secunda, 1801–1850. London : British Museum Pt 1 cxxxvi 128 pp. [lx] 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] (636); 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 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. [304] (determined from dates of collection cited by Gould (above) and the itinerary of the collecting ship H.M.S. Rattlesnake).
• Podargus marmoratus Gould, J. in MacGillivray, J. 1852. Narrative of the Voyage of H.M. Ship Rattlesnake during the years 1846–1850. 2 Vols. London : Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. [Appendix 4] [nom. nud.].

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

E Cape York Peninsula between Cape York, Ducie River(?) and McIlwraith Range—records further south unconfirmed.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, arthropod-feeder, carnivorous, closed forest, nocturnal, sedentary, territorial, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

General carnivore, randomly dispersed, seasonal breeder, sexually dimorphic, in pairs or family groups in rainforests and vine scrubs, roosts solitarily by day in low tree crotches, forages by night by flap-and-glide sallying from perches, builds small loose cup-shaped nests of tendrils on horizontal tree limbs, both sexes probably share nidificational duties.

 

General References

Atherton, R.G., Matthew, P.A. & Winter, J.W. 1980. Notes on the crop contents and locality records of the Marbled Frogmouth Podargus ocellatus marmoratus Gould from Cape York Peninsula. Sunbird 11: 71-72 (voice, occurrence, diet)

MacGillivray, W. 1918. Ornithologists in North Queensland. The Emu 17: 63-87, 145-148, 180-212 [published between 1917–1918] (call, behaviour, food)

 

History of changes

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