Subspecies Spilopelia chinensis tigrina (Temminck, 1809)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Columba tigrina Temminck, C.J. 1809. Histoire Naturelle générale des Pigeons. Peintes par Mademoiselle Pauline de Courcelles. Paris : Garnery ix 41 128 30 xvi iii pp. 59 pls. [livr. 9; publication dated as 1808–1811] [94] [livr. 9; for account of involved publication and establishment of authorship, see 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.; Ronsil, R. 1957. Madame Knip, née Pauline de Courcelles et son oeuvre ornithologique. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 3: 207–220; Stresemann, E. 1975. Ornithology from Aristotle to the Present. [Transl. H.J. & C. Epstein, Cottrell, G.W. (ed.)]. Cambridge : Harvard University Press xii 432 pp. (117–118); Mees, G.F. 1975. A list of the birds known from Roti and adjacent islets (Lesser Sunda Islands). Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 49: 115–140 (127); syntype figured on pl. 43 in original publication; lectotypification effected under ICZN Art. 74(a); although provenance of lectotype cited as Java by Peters, J.L. 1937. Check-list of Birds of the World. Cambridge : Harvard University Press Vol. 3 xiii 311 pp. (98), that specimen in MNHP is from Timor according to the original description—it is Temminck's paralectotype in RMNH which is from Java (Batavia)].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MNHP, Timor (as la Chine … l'Inde et dans toutes les îles de l'Océan indien … Java … Timor).
  Paralectotype(s) RMNH (institution uncertain).

  Subsequent designation references:

  Peters, J.L. 1937. Check-list of Birds of the World. Cambridge : Harvard University Press Vol. 3 xiii 311 pp. [98].

  Type locality references:

  Peters, J.L. 1937. Check-list of Birds of the World. Cambridge : Harvard University Press Vol. 3 xiii 311 pp. [98].

  Secondary source:

   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.; Peters, J.L. 1937. Check-list of Birds of the World. Cambridge : Harvard University Press Vol. 3 xiii 311 pp.; Ronsil, R. 1957. Madame Knip, née Pauline de Courcelles et son oeuvre ornithologique. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 3: 207-220; Mees, G.F. 1975. A list of the birds known from Roti and adjacent islets (Lesser Sunda Islands). Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 49: 115-140; Stresemann, E. 1975. Ornithology from Aristotle to the Present. [Transl. H.J. & C. Epstein, Cottrell, G.W. (ed.)]. Cambridge : Harvard University Press xii 432 pp.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Malay Peninsula, Indochina, Palawan, Borneo and Sundas; introduced; in major cities and adjacent rural areas of east, south and south-west coasts between Cairns region, QLD, and Perth, WA, also E TAS, Kalgoorlie, WA, and many country towns and surrounding farmland between Cairns, QLD, and Geelong-Warrnambool, VIC, and along Murray River valley to the South-East and gulfs of SA—also erratically Lord Howe Is. (subsp.?). Intergrades with S. c. chinensis (Scopoli, 1786) throughout Australian range, least in NE QLD north of Innisfail (89% or more phenotypically pure) and most along central east coast and in Perth.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Aerial, diurnal, granivore, gregarious, nomadic, peridomestic, resident, terrestrial, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Opportunistic breeder, gardens and farms, nests in trees and shrubs.

General References

Boehm, E.F. 1961. Indian Turtle-dove extends in range in South Australia. The Emu 61: 55 (distribution)

Frith, H.J., McKean, J.L. & Braithwaite, L.W. 1976. Sexual cycles and food of the doves Streptopelia chinensis and S. senegalensis in Australia. The Emu 76: 15-24 (breeding, diet)

Long, J.L. 1981. Introduced Birds of the World. The worldwide history, distribution and influence of birds introduced to new environments. Illustrated by Susan Tingay. Sydney : A.H. & A.W. Reed 528 pp. (distribution, establishment)

Sedgwick, E. 1958. The introduced Turtledoves in Western Australia. Western Australian Naturalist 6: 92-100, 112-127 (establishment)

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