Subspecies Psephotus haematonotus haematonotus (Gould, 1838)

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Subspecies Psephotus haematonotus haematonotus (Gould, 1838)

Platycercus haematonotus Gould, J. 1838. In Proceedings of meeting of Zoological Society of London, Sept. 26, 1837. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1837: 88-89 [published 13 Feb 1838, publication dated as 1837] [88] [re-described without additional information in Gould, J. 1838. Descriptions of new species of Australian Birds. Principally in the author's collection, with characters of several new genera. In, A Synopsis of the Birds of Australia, and the Adjacent Islands. London : J. Gould. Pt IV Appendix pp. 1–8 [published Apr. 1838, publication dated as 1837–1838] and in Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1837: 151 (Dec. 1838); although ANSP 22921 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, and although this specimen is almost certainly the male illustrated on pl. 36 in Gould, J. 1848. The Birds of Australia. London : J. Gould Vol. 5 92 pls pp. [Pt 8, 1842], there is no firm evidence that it was part of the original series from which the species was described, 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, who cites none in ANSP; the original material may well have been taken by Major Thomas Mitchell on any of his expeditions in inland New South Wales in 1831, 1835 and 1836: the species was mentioned concurrently by Mitchell (see Nanodes haematonotis Mitchell, 1838 (q.v.)), was cited in the vernacular from the 'brushes near the Darling' in Mitchell's collections in AM by Bennett, G. 1837. Catalogue of Specimens of Natural History and miscellaneous curiosities deposited in the Australian Museum. Sydney : Australian Museum, and was described by Gould together with Northiella haematogaster (Gould, 1838), itself based on material from Mitchell, see Mathews, G.M. 1914. Note on Platycercus (haematogaster), Gould. South Australian Ornithologist 1(2): 15–17 [Sclater, P.L. 1893. List of the dates of delivery of the sheets of the "Proceedings" of the Zoological Society of London, from the commencement in 1830 to 1859 inclusive. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1893: 435–440]; if Mitchell was the source, the type material may include the two specimens in BMNH from 'Australia' cited 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 (568) as coming from Mitchell—but not the material in AM which Gould would not have seen at the time; note, however, that the protologue specifies specimen(s) in Gould's own collection then].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH 2♀ (institution uncertain; ex Sir T. Mitchell coll.*), New South Wales, probably central Darling River drainage (as Novâ Cambriâ Australi).
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. [190] (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.]).
Nanodes haematonotis Mitchell, T.L. 1838. Three Expeditions into the Interior of eastern Australia; with descriptions of the recently explored region of Australia Felix, and of the present colony of New South Wales. London : T. & W. Boone Vol. 1 [xxiv] 351 pp. 21pls. [xviii] [nom. nud., with '(New Species)' the sole ascription; implicitly treated as a mispelling for Platycercus haematonotus Gould, 1838 (q.v.), e.g., by Mathews, G.M. 1927. Systema Avium Australasianarum. A systematic list of the birds of the Australasian region. London : British Ornithologists' Union Pt 1 iv 426 pp.; Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia Pt 1 Non-passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp.—nevertheless, no attribution is made to Gould in the protologue].
Type data:
Syntype(s).
Psephotus haematonotus virescens Mathews, G.M. 1915. Additions and corrections to my List of the Birds of Australia. Austral Avian Records 2: 123-133 [Date published 129] [128] [holotype indicated but not specified in original description].
Type data:

Syntype(s) AMNH 623335 ♂ (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. unspecified), 50 miles northeast of Adelaide and Palmer River, Mt Lofty Range, SA (as South Australia); AMNH 623336 ♀ (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. unspecified), 50 miles northeast of Adelaide and Palmer River, Mt Lofty Range, SA (as South Australia); AMNH 623337 ♀ (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. unspecified), 50 miles northeast of Adelaide and Palmer River, Mt Lofty Range, SA (as South Australia)
Comment: for identification of syntypes 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

Condon, H.T. 1941. The Australian broadtailed parrots (subfamily Platycercinae). Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 7: 117-144 [141]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Inland SE Australia, north-east to Lockyer Creek and Sunshine Coast, QLD—east and south to much of coastal NSW and VIC (where localised and scarce east of the Great Dividing Range and largely absent from Gippsland, VIC)—south-west to Yorke Peninsula and Spencer Gulf, SA, reaching eastern edge of Gawler Ranges ?—north-west and north to N Flinders Range (The Frome) and Olary Spur, SA, and Barrier Range and Bulloo-Darling-Warrego-Culgoa-Barwon River drainages, NSW, as far as Quilpie, Charleville, Mt Hutton and Dalby, QLD—colonies in coastal SE QLD may have been established, wholly or in part, from introductions from mid 1950s. Evident intergradation with P. h. caeruleus Condon, 1941 at northern limits in Flinders Range and perhaps south-central Queensland (Lake Bullawarra on Bulloo River system).

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

NSW, Qld, SA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- New South Wales: Bulloo River basin, Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
- Queensland: Bulloo River basin, Murray-Darling basin, NE coastal
- South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, diurnal, folivore, granivore, gregarious, low open woodland, low woodland, nocturnal, resident, terrestrial, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, sexually dimorphic, in taller eucalypt woodlands, eucalypt-lined drainages and farmland, feeds mainly on seeds on ground and low shrubs, flocks in small to large 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.