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Subspecies Syma torotoro flavirostris (Gould, 1850)

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Subspecies Syma torotoro flavirostris (Gould, 1850)

  • Halcyon flavirostris Gould, J. 1850. A brief account of the researches in natural history of John McGillivray, Esq., the naturalist attached to H.M. surveying ship the Rattlesnake, on the north-eastern coasts of Australia, New Guinea &c. Contributions to Ornithology Jardine 1850: 92-107 [105] [as Halcyon (Syma?) flavirostris; published concurrently by Gould in Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1850: 200 (Feb. 1851) and in Gould, J. 1869. The Birds of Australia. Supplement. London : J. Gould 81 pls pp. [Pt 3, 1859]; syntypes (male, female) illustrated on plate 5 in latter volume—specimens in BMNH collected from Cape York by J. Macgillivray, as well as some or all of those received from the same locality via the Gould collection, are probably syntypes, see specimen citations in Sharpe, R.B. 1892. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Picariae. Coraciae (contin.) and Halcyones. London : British Museum Vol. 17 xi 522 pp. XVII pls; cf. Warren, R.L.M. 1966. Type-specimens of Birds in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. 1 Non-Passerines. London : British Museum ix 320 pp.; type locality specified on p. 99 of original description].
    Type data:
     
    Syntype(s) BMNH 1851.1.11.9 ♂ adult, Cape York, QLD; BMNH (nos. unspecified), Cape York, QLD.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland


Extra Distribution Information

N and E Cape York Peninsula, north to Cape York, west to Albatross Bay and south-east to Stewart River—also Prince of Wales Is.


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

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, arthropod-feeder, closed forest, diurnal, sedentary, territorial, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Edges of closed forest, randomly dispersed, seasonal breeder, sexually dimorphic, anuriphagous, lacertiphagous, solitary or in dispersed pairs, feeds in pouncing sallies from arboreal perches in forest lower mid-stage, nests in hollows.

 

General References

Bell, H.L. 1981. Information on New Guinean Kingfishers, Alcedinidae. Ibis 123: 51-61 (habitat, status, nidification)

MacGillivray, W.D.K. 1932. The Yellow-billed Kingfisher. The Emu 32: 1-2 pl. 1 (habitat, nidification)

 

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)
12-Feb-2010 (import)