Subspecies Todiramphus (Todiramphus) sanctus vagans (Lesson, 1828)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Alcedo vagans Lesson, R.P. 1828. Manuel d' Ornithologie, ou Description des Genres et des principales Espèces d'Oiseaux. Paris : Roret Vol. 2 448 pp. [89].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP (deposition of type material uncertain: not cited as in MNHP by Pucheran, J. 1853. Etudes sur les types peu connus du Musée de Paris. 6—Passereux syndactyles. Rev. Mag. Zool. Paris 2 5: 385–393), Bay of Islands, North Is., New Zealand (as baie des îles).
• Sauropatis sanctus adamsi Mathews, G.M. 1916. List of additions of new sub-species to, and changes in, my "List of the Birds of Australia". Austral Avian Records 3(3): 53-68 [Date published 4 Apr 1916] [68] [as Saupopatis sanctus adamsi, corrected by Mathews, G.M. 1927. Systema Avium Australasianarum. A systematic list of the birds of the Australasian region. London : British Ornithologists' Union Pt 1 iv 426 pp.; syntype figured on pl. 18 in Mathews, G.M. 1928. The Birds of Norfolk & Lord Howe Islands and the Australasian South Polar Quadrant with Additions to "The Birds of Australia". London : H.F. & G. Witherby xii 139 pp. pls 1–45].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AMNH 639578–84, 639593, 639595 ♂ adults (G.M. Mathews' coll. nos unspecified), 'The Pines', Lord Howe Is. (as Lord Howe Island); AMNH 639585–86 ♂ imm. (G.M. Mathews' coll. nos unspecified), 'The Pines', Lord Howe Is. (as Lord Howe Island); AMNH 639587–88 ♀ adults (G.M. Mathews' coll. nos unspecified), 'The Pines', Lord Howe Is. (as Lord Howe Island); AMNH 639589–92, 639594 ♀ imm. (G.M. Mathews' coll. nos unspecified), 'The Pines', Lord Howe Is. (as Lord Howe Island)
  Comment: for identification of syntypes 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.

  Type locality references:

  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.

  Secondary source:

   Mathews, G.M. 1927. Systema Avium Australasianarum. A systematic list of the birds of the Australasian region. London : British Ornithologists' Union Pt 1 iv 426 pp.; Mathews, G.M. 1928. The Birds of Norfolk & Lord Howe Islands and the Australasian South Polar Quadrant with Additions to "The Birds of Australia". London : H.F. & G. Witherby xii 139 pp. pls 1-45.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Wolters, H.E. 1976. Die Vogelarten der Erde. Eine systematische Liste mit Verbreitungsangaben sowie deutschen und englischen Namen. Hamburg : Paul Parey pp. Lief. 2, 81-160. [121]

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

New Zealand and adjacent islands.

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater, Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

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

Extra Ecological Information

Randomly dispersed, seasonal breeder, lacertiphagous, solitary or in dispersed pairs, feeds from forest edge to coral reef in pouncing sallies from vantage perches, nests in hollows, both sexes share nidificational duties, apparently self-introduced from New Zealand in mid 1800s.

General References

Fullagar, P.J., McKean, J.L. & Van Tets, G.F. 1975. Report on the Birds, appendix F. pp. 55-72 in Recher, H.F. & Clark, S.S. (eds). Environmental Survey of Lord Howe Island A report to the Lord Howe Island Board. Sydney : Australian Museum viii 86 pp. (status, ecology)

Hindwood, K.A. 1940. The birds of Lord Howe Island. The Emu 40: 1-86 pl. 1 (status, biology of island population)

Mathews, G.M. 1928. The Birds of Norfolk & Lord Howe Islands and the Australasian South Polar Quadrant with Additions to "The Birds of Australia". London : H.F. & G. Witherby xii 139 pp. pls 1-45. (morphology)

Oliver, W.R.B. 1955. New Zealand Birds. Wellington : A.H. & A.W. Reed 661 pp. 12 pls. (general biology)

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