Subspecies Trichoglossus moluccanus septentrionalis Robinson, 1900
- Trichoglossus novaehollandiae septentrionalis Robinson, H.C. 1900. Contributions to the zoology of North Queensland. Bulletin of the Liverpool Museum 2: 115-116 [115] [as Trichoglossus novaehollandiae subsp. septentrionalis; for identification of types, see Wagstaffe, R. 1978. Type Specimens of Birds in the Merseyside County Museums. Liverpool : Merseyside County Museums, Merseyside County Council 33 pp.; small female syntype with wing 141 mm and tail 115 mm selected here as lectotype to confirm name for the small subspecies of Cape York Peninsula which begins to intergrade with T. m. moluccanus (Gmelin, 1788) rather abruptly from Cooktown south].
Type data:
Lectotype LIVCM B. 23, 7, 1900, 4 ♀, Cooktown, QLD (as North Queensland (Cooktown)).
Paralectotype(s) LIVCM B. 23, 7, 1900, 4a ♂; LIVCM B. 23, 7, 1900, 4; LIVCM B 23, 7, 1900, 4b.
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Cape York Peninsula, south in west to upper Gilbert and lower Norman-Flinders and upper Gilbert Rivers where it abuts on T. rubritorquis Vigors & Horsfield, 1827, and in east to Endeavour-Daintree Rivers, south of which it intergrades rather abruptly with T. moluccanus (Gmelin, 1788)—also all mainland islands in SW Torres Strait, erratically northwards through eastern islands where may intergrade with T. h. caeruleiceps D'Albertis & Salvadori, 1879.
IBRA
Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP)
Other Regions
Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater
Ecological Descriptors
Arboreal, closed forest, diurnal, frugivorous, gregarious, mellivore, nomadic, open forest, tall forest, volant, woodland.
Extra Ecological Information
Seasonal breeder, feeds on nectar, pollen, fruit-flesh and (accidentally?) seeds and insects in tree crowns in eucalypt and paperbark (Melaleuca) woodlands and forests and fringes of rainforest and mangroves, flocks and roosts in communal groups , flies directly on swiftly beating wings, nests on bed of wood dust in tree hollows, wanders locally and regionally to seasonal food sources.