Subspecies Podargus ocellatus plumiferus Gould, 1846

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• Podargus plumiferus Gould, J. 1846. In Proceedings of meeting of Zoological Society of London, Oct. 14, 1845. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1845: 104-105 [published Jan. 1846, publication dated as 1845] [104] [based on two specimens then in the Gould collection, one in male, the other in female plumage, cf. Gould, J. 1848. The Birds of Australia. London : J. Gould Vol. 2 104 pls pp. [Pt 17, Dec. 1844] (Pt 25); both syntypes figured on pl. 6 in Gould, J. 1848. The Birds of Australia. London : J. Gould Vol. 2 104 pls pp. [Pt 17, Dec. 1844], the male (lectotype) in the foreground and the female (unsexed) behind—for their identification, see Meyer de Schauensee, R. 1957. On some avian types, principally Gould's, in the collection of the Academy. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 109: 123–246; lectotypification effected under ICZN Art. 74(a)].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ANSP 22033 ♂ adult (Verreaux cat. no. 177), Clarence and MacLeay(?) Rivers, NSW.
  Paralectotype(s) ANSP 22034 unsexed adult (=♀) (Verreaux cat. no. 176).

  Subsequent designation references:

  Stone, W. in Stone, W. & Mathews, G.M. 1913. A list of the species of Australian birds described by John Gould, with the location of the type-specimens. Austral Avian Records 1: 129-180 [Date published 28 Feb 1913].
• Cyphorhina plumifera neglecta Mathews, G.M. 1916. List of additions of new sub-species to, and changes in, my "List of the Birds of Australia". Austral Avian Records 3(3): 53-68 [Date published 4 Apr 1916] [57] [holotype figured on pl. 328 and described in detail on pp. 42–43 in Mathews, G.M. 1918. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 7 pt 1 pp. 1–112 pls 325–336 [4 Mar. 1918]].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 632372 unsexed (=♀) (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. 18441), southern QLD near NSW border (as Southern Queensland)
  Comment: for identification of holotype and type locality, 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

• Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1981. Nocturnal Birds of Australia. Illustrated by Jeremy Boot. Melbourne : Lansdowne Edns 136 pp. 22 pls. [publication dated as 1980] [93-94]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Local in coastal and subcoastal mid E Australia to c. 800 m alt., north to Conondale-Jimna Ranges, QLD, south to the lower Clarence River and probably Carrai Plateau and Manning River, NSW, west inland to eastern scarps of Great Dividing Range.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, 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), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • 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, 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

Holmes, G. 1981. Field identification of the Marbled Frogmouth. Australian Birds 15: 74-75 (occurrence, habitat, identification, voice)

McGill, A. 1978. An assessment of known information on the Plumed Frogmouth. Australian Birds 12: 37-40 (distribution)

Roberts, G.J. & Ingram, G.J. 1978. Marbled Frogmouth in the Conondale Range, south-eastern Queensland. The Emu 78: 41-42 (occurrence, habitat, voice)

 

History of changes

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		12-Feb-2010	(import)