Subspecies Todiramphus (Lazulena) macleayii macleayii (Jardine & Selby, 1830)
- Halcyon macleayii Jardine, W. & Selby, P.J. 1830. Illustrations of Ornithology. Edinburgh : W.H. Lizars Series Vol. 1 Pt 7 pls 101-111. [text to pl. 101] [as Macleayii; also as incorrect subsequent spelling, macleayi, e.g., by 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; type material not traced, see 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 (255); 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. (360); 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.; identifiable with Arnhem Land subspecies by original description—'remaining upper parts ... rich Prussian blue'—and accompanying illustration on plate 101].
Type data:
Holotype whereabouts unknown (ex Linnean Society of London coll. per A. Macleay ♂*, figured on pl. 101 in Jardine, W. & Selby, P.J. 1830. Illustrations of Ornithology. Edinburgh : W.H. Lizars Series Vol. 1 Pt 7 pls 101–111 pp.), Port Essington, NT (as New Holland).Type locality references:
Berlepsch, H. 1911. Die vögel der Aru-Inseln, mit besonderer berücksichtigung der sammlungen des Herrn Dr H. Merton. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 34: 53-98; 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; Mees, G.F. 1982. Birds from the lowlands of southern New Guinea (Merauke and Koembe). Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 191: 1-188 4 pls [171]. - Halcyon macleayii distinguendus Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [288].
Type data:
Holotype AMNH 638910 ♂ (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. 5214), South Alligator River, NT
Comment: for identification of holotype, see 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. - Halcyon macleayii publa Mathews, G.M. 1912. Additions and corrections to my Reference List to the Birds of Australia. Austral Avian Records 1(2): 25-52 [Date published 2 Apr 1912] [38] [published anonymously—authorship credited in Austral Avian Rec. 1: 65; also as incorrect subsequent spelling, publi by Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia Pt 1 Non-passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. (234)].
Type data:
Holotype AMNH 638907 ♂ (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. 10872), Apsley Strait, Melville Is., NT (as Melville Island, NT)
Comment: for identification of holotype and type locality, see 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. - Halcyon macleayii coeruleus Ashby, E. 1914. Halcyon macleayii coeruleus subsp. n.- The Northern Forest Kingfisher. South Australian Ornithologist 1(1): 20-21 [20] [based on two specimens, adult and immature].
Type data:
Syntype(s) adult (ex E. Ashby coll., destroyed, see Condon, H.T. 1941. Obituary and bibliography of Edwin Ashby. Emu 40: 409–413), Anson Bay and Port Keats, NT; SAMA immature lost (S.A. Parker, pers. comm.), Anson Bay and Port Keats, NT.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
Distribution
States
Northern Territory
Extra Distribution Information
Also Sermata, coastal and subcoastal Arnhem Land, west to lower Victoria River, south inland to W Roper River, and east to Groote Eylandt and Sir Edward Pellew Is.—also Melville-Bathurst Ils—records from Kimberley Division (Derby) not confirmed.
IBRA
NT: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal
- Indonesia
- Aru Islands
Ecological Descriptors
Arboreal, arthropod-feeder, closed forest, diurnal, open forest, sedentary, territorial, volant, woodland.
Extra Ecological Information
Randomly dispersed, seasonal breeder, sexually dimorphic, anuriphagous, lacertiphagous, solitary or in dispersed pairs, feeds in pouncing sallies from arboreal perches, nests in hollows and arboreal termitaria, both sexes share nidificational duties, wanders regionally, sometimes reaching Aru Ils and islands in Banda Sea.
General References
Deignan, H.G. 1964. Birds of the Arnhem Land Expedition. pp. 345-425 in Specht, R.L. (ed.). Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land. Zoology. Parkville : Melbourne University Press Vol. 4 xvii 533 pp. (nidification)
Mees, G.F. 1982. Birds from the lowlands of southern New Guinea (Merauke and Koembe). Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 191: 1-188 4 pls (movements)
Thompson, H.A.F. 1984. The status of kingfishers and their allies (Coraciiformes) in the Darwin area, N.T., 1974 to 1982. Northern Territory Naturalist 7: 18-29 (distribution, habitat, status)
White, C.M.N. & Bruce, M.D. 1986. The Birds of Wallacea (Sulawesi, the Moluccas & Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia). An annotated check-list. B.O.U. Check-list No. 7. London : British Ornithologists' Union 524 pp. (extra-Australian distribution)
History of changes
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