Subspecies Ptilinopus regina regina Swainson, 1825

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• Ptilinopus purpuratus regina Swainson, W. 1825. On the characters and natural affinities of several new birds from Australasia; including some observations on the Columbidae. Zoological Journal London 1: 463-484 [Date published Jan 1825] [474] [as Ptilinopus purpuratus var. regina].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) UMZC 17/Col/46/ee/4 ♂, NSW (as Australasia); UMZC 17/Col/46/cc/1 ♀ or imm., NSW (as Australasia).

  Type locality references:

  Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912].
• Ptilinopus swainsonii Gould, J. 1842. The Birds of Australia. London : J. Gould Vol. 5(7) 92 pls. [published June 1842, publication dated 1848 in Vol. 5] [text to pl. 55] [as Swainsonii; first read at meeting of Zoological Society of London, 8 Feb. 1842, but not published until Nov. 1842 in Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1842: 18, see 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; for identification of syntypes, 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—but provenance (type locality) of lectotype, whether Clarence River or Moreton Bay, not specified by Meyer de Schauensee (1957) nor by lectotype designation under ICZN Art. 74(a); syntypes figured on pl. 55 of original description].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ANSP 13058 ♀ adult (Verreaux cat. no. 45), Clarence River and Moreton Bay, NSW, QLD (as brushes of the River Clarence … Moreton Bay).
  Paralectotype(s) ANSP 13057 ♂ (Verreaux cat. no. 44).

  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] [134].
• Ptilinopus amabilis De Vis, C.W., as "Thickthorn". 1880. The Naturalist - The Wonga Wonga. Queenslander 7 August 1880: 172. [for identity of "Thickhorn", see Ingram, G. 1986. "Thickthorn" and his birds. Sunbird 16: 25–32] [172].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (lost ♂ adult), Rockhampton district, Qld.
• Ptilinopus regina yorki Mathews, G.M. 1922. Additions and corrections. Austral Avian Records 5: 1-9 [1] [holotype figured on pl. 22 and described in detail on pp. 105–106 in Mathews, G.M. 1911. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 1 pt 2 pp. 97–136 pls 20–33 [31 Jan. 1911, volume publication dated as 1910–1911]].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH ♂ adult (institution uncertain; G.M. Mathews' coll. no. unspecified), Cape York, QLD
  Comment: holotype not cited in AMNH 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.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Peters, J.L. 1937. Check-list of Birds of the World. Cambridge : Harvard University Press Vol. 3 xiii 311 pp. [29]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Coastal NE Australia north to Cape York Peninsula west as far as lower Edward River, QLD, south to about Port Stephens, NSW, and inland locally to ranges on coastal watershed of Great Dividing Range, reaching Atherton tableland, Clarke Range and Bunya Mountains, QLD, and upper Clarence River, Bellinger River, and Comboyne plateau, NSW—also off-shore islands from Green Is. south to North Stradbroke, QLD, and all heavily-wooded Torres Strait islands, straggling erratically to south coastal NSW, E VIC, E TAS, adjacent areas of New Guinea and once Norfolk Is.

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), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal, NE oceanic, Torres Strait Islands

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, closed forest, diurnal, frugivorous, gregarious, mangrove, nomadic, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, sexually dimorphic, arboreal fruit-eater in mid and upper strata of tropical and lower altitude subtropical rainforest, and in north, mangroves, rests, roosts and nests in trees, wanders locally and regionally to seasonal food sources, with some south to north migration in autumn-winter in south.

 

General References

Crome, F.H.J. 1975. The ecology of fruit pigeons in tropical northern Queensland. Australian Wildlife Research 2: 155-185 (movements, feeding, ecology, diet)

Frith, H.J. 1952. Notes on the pigeons of the Richmond River, N.S.W. The Emu 52: 89-99 (habitat, movements)

 

History of changes

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