Species Ramsayornis modestus (G.R. Gray, 1858)

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CAVS: 0595

Species Ramsayornis modestus (G.R. Gray, 1858)

Brown-backed Honeyeater

Glyciphila modesta Gray, G.R. 1858. A list of the birds, with descriptions of new species, obtained by Mr Alfred R. Wallace in the Aru and Ké Islands. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1858: 169-198 [Mathews, G.M. 1911. On some necessary alterations in the nomenclature of birds. Pt II. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 1–22 (cf. 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))] [174].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1873.5.12.894 adult ♀, Indonesia: Aru Islands.
Gliciphila subfasciata Ramsay, E.P. 1868. On certain new and rare species of birds found at Rockingham Bay, Queensland. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1868: 381-388 [Date published 1 Oct 1868] [385].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1881.5.1.4259 adult ♀, Qld: Rockingham Bay.
Gliciphila modesta ramsayi Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [400].

Distribution

States

Queensland

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

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), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal, Torres Strait Islands
Indonesia
- Irian Jaya
Papua New Guinea

Ecological Descriptors

Broadleaf thicket/shrubland, mangrove or mangal, paperbark woodland, tropical eucalypt, tropical rainforest.

Common Name References

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. (Brown-backed Honeyeater)

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)
10-Nov-2020		30-Aug-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)

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