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Subspecies Podargus strigoides phalaenoides Gould, 1840

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Subspecies Podargus strigoides phalaenoides Gould, 1840

  • Podargus phalaenoides Gould, J. 1840. Letter to Chairman of the Scientific Committee, Zoological Society of London, read before meeting of the Society of Oct. 8, 1839. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1839: 139-145 [Date published Mar 1840: publication dated 1839] [142] [as phalaenoïdes; also spelt phaloenoides, e.g., by Mathews, G.M. 1918. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 7 pt 1 pp. 1–112 pls 325–336 [4 Mar. 1918] (6); ANSP 22052 (Verreaux cat. no. 174) from north-west coast cited as type by 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, but neither this specimen nor two others from Port Essington in the Gould collection in ANSP are type material according to Deignan, H.G. 1951. A new frogmouth from Groote Eylandt, Gulf of Carpentaria. Emu 51: 71–73; as pointed out by 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 (136), Gould evidently described phalaenoides from a single specimen obtained by Benjamin Bynoe on the Beagle at King Sound, WA, in 1838, which Gould, J. 1848. The Birds of Australia. London : J. Gould Vol. 2 104 pls pp. [Pt 17, Dec. 1844] suggests could be in BMNH—however, the only two specimens in BMNH cited by 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] approaching the type locality (e.g., Australia) were obtained from Sir George Grey and Capt. Bowyer Bower, and no type material is cited in BMNH by 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.; if, however, the locality of 'NE Coast' on ANSP 22052 quoted by Deignan, H.G. 1951. A new frogmouth from Groote Eylandt, Gulf of Carpentaria. Emu 51: 71–73 is perchance a mistake for 'NW Coast' (cf. 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), then that specimen may well be the holotype].
    Type data:
     Holotype ANSP 22052 (institution uncertain; ?lost, (Verreaux cat. no. 174)), King Sound, Kimberley Division, WA (as north-west coast of Australia).
  • Podargus vincendonii Pucheran, J. 1853. Mammifères et Oiseaux. 166, 56, 107 pp. in Hombron, J.B. & Jacquinot, C.H. (eds). Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée exécuté par ordre du Roi pendant les années 1837-1840, sous le commandement de M.J. Dumont-d'Urville Capitaine de Vaisseau. Zoologie. Paris : Gide & Baudry Vol. 3 166 pp. [92] [commonly attributed to Hombron & Jacquinot or Jacquinot & Pucheran, but for authorship, see Mathews, G.M. 1919. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 7 pt 5 pp. 385–499 + xii pls 363–370 Appendixes A & B [publication dated as from preface, 12 June 1919 given in Appendix B] (Appendix B); 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); type figured as I, A (Podarge de Vincendon) on pl. 21 of 'Oiseaux' in Dumont-d'Urville, J. 1853. Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée pendant les années 1837–1838–1839–1840, sous le commandement de M.J. Dumont-d'Urville Capitaine de vaisseau. Atlas, Zoologie. Paris : Gide et Cie et J. Baudry [published between 1842–1853]].
    Type data:
     Holotype MNHP unsexed, Raffles Bay, Cobourg Peninsula, NT (as Bornéo).
  • Type data:
     Holotype AM 0.45419 ♂ adult (ex Macleay Museum, Sydney, no. BT 19), Kimberley, Norman River, Gulf of Carpentaria, QLD (as Gulf of Carpentaria).
  • Podargus strigoides dendyi Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [283].
    Type data:
     Holotype AMNH 632226 ♂ adult (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. 6286), Derby, north 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.
  • Podargus strigoides melvillensis Mathews, G.M. 1912. Additions and corrections to my Reference List to the Birds of Australia. Austral Avian Records 1(2): 25-52 [Date published 2 Apr 1912] [37] [published anonymously—authorship credited in Austral Avian Rec. 1: 65].
    Type data:
     Holotype AMNH 632254 ♀ adult (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. 10866), Apsley Strait, Melville Is., NT (as Melville Island)
    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.
  • Podargus strigoides capensis Mathews, G.M. 1918. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 7 pts i-iv xii pp. 1-384 pls 325-362. [Date published 4 Mar. 1918: volume publication dated as 1918–1919; Publication of Pt 1 (4 Mar. 1918), Pt 2 (15 May 1918), Pt 3 (26 Aug.), Pt 4 (19 Dec 1918), Pt 5 (12 June 1919)] [35].
    Type data:
     Holotype AMNH 632276 ♂ adult (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. unspecified), Jardine River, Cape York, QLD (as Jardine Creek)
    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 (139).
  • Type data:
     Holotype AM 0.38793 ♂ adult (ex USNM 405827), Umbakumba, Groote Eylandt, NT (as Ambukwamba).
    Paratype(s) USNM 405828 ♂ adult; USNM no. unspecified ♂; USNM no. unspecified ♂; USNM no. unspecified ♀; USNM no. unspecified ♀; USNM no. unspecified ♀.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Tropical Autrallia N of c. 20ºS; coastal and subcoastal N Australia, west to all Kimberley Division, WA—east to Cape York Peninsula, QLD—south inland to northern fringes of Great Sandy and Tanami Deserts WA, NT, Barkly Tableland, NT, headwaters of Gulf of Carpentaria river systems, QLD, and the divide between the Flinders-Mitchell-Gilbert and Burdekin River systems across the foot of Cape York Peninsula, QLD—also Melville-Bathurst Ils, Groote Eylandt and probably other larger inshore islands along north coast—records from south islands in Torres Strait need confirmation. Intergrades at southern limits with P. s. strigoides (Latham, 1802) (q.v.) and P. s. brachypterus Gould, 1841 (q.v.).


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.
IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal
    • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
    • Western Australia: N coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, arthropod-feeder, carnivorous, low open woodland, low woodland, nocturnal, open forest, open scrub, sedentary, territorial, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Randomly dispersed, seasonal breeder, general carnivore, in pairs or family groups in open eucalypt and acacia forests, woodlands and chaparral, roosts by day either on the ground or more often in trees, forages by night by flap-and-glide sallying from perches, builds brief platform nests of sticks in trees, both sexes share nidificational duties.

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
12-Feb-2010 (import)