Species Pyrrholaemus sagittatus (Latham, 1801)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Sylvia sagittata Latham, J. 1801. Supplementum Indicis Ornithologici, sive Systematis Ornithologiae. London : G. Leigh, J. & S. Sotheby 74 pp. [liv].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH Watling drawing No. 196 (in Library of the Zoology Department, British Museum (Natural History)), New South Wales; BMNH Watling drawing No. 197 (in Library of the Zoology Department, British Museum (Natural History)), New South Wales; BMNH Watling drawing No. 198 (in Library of the Zoology Department, British Museum (Natural History)), New South Wales.

  Type locality references:

  Sharpe, R.B. 1906. Birds. pp. 79–515 in, The History of the Collections contained in the Natural History Departments of the British Museum. London : British Museum Vol. 2.
• Sylvia nitida Vieillot, L.P. 1817. Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle applicquée aux Arts, principalement a l'Agriculture et a l'Économie rurale et domestique par une Société de Naturalistes et d'Agriculteurs. Paris : Déterville Vol. 11. [Date published 21 Jun 1817] [197].
• Sylvia pyrrhophrys Vieillot, L.P. 1817. Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle applicquée aux Arts, principalement a l'Agriculture et a l'Économie rurale et domestique par une Société de Naturalistes et d'Agriculteurs. Paris : Déterville Vol. 11. [Date published 21 Jun 1817] [219].
• Anthus minimus Vigors, N.A. & Horsfield, T. 1827. A description of the Australian birds in the collection of the Linnean Society; with an attempt at arranging them according to their natural affinities. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 15: 170-331 [Date published 17 Feb 1827: publication dated 1826] [230].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 1863.7.7.32b adult unsexed, NSW: Sydney [33ᵒ52'S, 151ᵒ12'E]; BMNH, NSW: Sydney [33ᵒ52'S, 151ᵒ12'E].

  Type locality references:

  Warren, R.L.M. & Harrison, C.J.O. 1971. Type-specimens of Birds in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. 2 Passerines. London : British Museum vi 628 pp. [355].
• Sylvia pyrrophys RAOU Checklist Committee, Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union 1926. Official Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union x 212 pp. [83] [incorrect subsequent spelling of Sylvia pyrrhophrys Vieillot, 1817, in synonymy and unavailable].
• Calamanthus strigatus Gray, G.R. 1848. The Genera of Birds: comprising their generic characters, notice of the habits of each genus, and an extensive list of species referred to their several genera. London : Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans Vol. 1. [164] [replacement name for Anthus minimus Vigors & Horsfield, 1827].
• Chthonicola sagittata inexpectata Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [346].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 597487 adult ♂, Vic: Mitcham [37ᵒ49'S, 145ᵒ12'E].
  Paratype(s) AMNH 597502 ♂, Vic: Olinda [37ᵒ51'S, 145ᵒ23'E]; AMNH 597504 ♂, Vic: Ringwood [34°49S, 145°14E]; AMNH 597509 ♀, Vic: Ringwood [34°49S, 145°14E].

  Type locality references:

  LeCroy, M. 2008. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, and Petroicidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313(7): 1-298 [141].
• Chthonicola sagittata queenslandica Mathews, G.M. 1912. Additions and corrections to my Reference List. Austral Avian Records 1(5): 118-120 [Date published 24 Dec 1912] [119].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 597529 adult ♂, Qld: Tambo [24°52' S, 146°15' 5].

  Type locality references:

  LeCroy, M. 2008. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, and Petroicidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313(7): 1-298 [141-142].

 

Generic Combinations

• Pyrrholaemus sagittata (Latham, 1801). —
  Norman, J.A., Christidis, L. & Schodde, R. 2018. Ecological and evolutionary diversification in the Australo-Papuan scrubwrens (Sericornis) and mouse-warblers (Crateroscelis), with a revision of the subfamily Sericornithinae (Aves: Passeriformes: Acanthizidae). Organisms, Diversity and Evolution 18: 241-259 [256]
• Chthonicola sagittata (Latham, 1801). —
  Bonaparte, C.L. 1850. Conspectus Generum Avium. Tom. I. Lugduni, Batavorum : E.J. Brill 543 pp. [Date published 24 Jun 1850] [280]

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Vic: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Casuarina-cypress woodland, dry sclerophyll forest, mallee (Eucalyptus) woodland, mulga woodland, temperate eucalypt.

 

Common Name References

Anonymous 1969. An Index of Australian Bird Names. Division of WIldlife Research Technical Paper. Canberra : CSIRO Vol. No. 20 pp. 93. [46] (Speckled Warbler, Blood-tit, Jenny Wren, Little Field Lark, Little Field-wren, Speckled Jack, Streaked Warbler)

Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1999. The Directory of Australian Birds : Passerines. A Taxonomic and Zoogeographic Atlas of the Biodiversity of Birds in Australia and its Territories. Collingwood, Australia : CSIRO Publishing x 851 pp. (Speckled Warbler)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Nov-2020	AVES	02-Aug-2024	MODIFIED
31-Oct-2018	ACANTHIZIDAE Bonaparte, 1854	05-Dec-2014	MODIFIED	Dr Wayne Longmore
		19-Sep-2013	MODIFIED