Subspecies Zanda funerea funerea (Shaw, 1794)

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Subspecies Zanda funerea funerea (Shaw, 1794)

Psittacus funereus Shaw, G. in Shaw, G. & Nodder, F.P. (ill.) 1794. The Naturalist's Miscellany; or coloured figures of natural objects drawn and described immediately from nature. London : Nodder 183-218, VI pls. [text to pl. 186] [based on a female figured on pl. 186 of original description; BMNH 1863.7.8.3 listed as type by Salvadori, T. 1891. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Psittaci, or Parrots. London : British Museum Vol. 20 xvii 658 pp. XVIII pls (108)—but it is not the specimen from which Shaw described Psittacus funereus, see 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.; for dispersal of Leverian Museum which held the type material, see 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. (172–173); Whittell, H.M. 1954. The Literature of Australian Birds: a History and Bibliography of Australian Ornithology. Perth : Paterson Brokensha xi 116 788 pp. (439–440)].
Type data:
Holotype whereabouts unknown (ex Leverian Museum, dispersed, figured on pl. 186 by Nodder, F.P. in Shaw, G. & Nodder, F.P. (op. cit.)), NSW (as New Holland).
Type locality references:
Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912].
Secondary source:
Salvadori, T. 1891. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Psittaci, or Parrots. London : British Museum Vol. 20 xvii 658 pp. XVIII pls.; 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.; Whittell, H.M. 1954. The Literature of Australian Birds: a History and Bibliography of Australian Ornithology. Perth : Paterson Brokensha xi 116 788 pp.; 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.
Plyctolophus funeralis Swainson, W. 1837. On the Natural History and Classification of Birds. In, Lardner, D. (ed.). The Cabinet Cyclopaedia. London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman and John Taylor Vol. 2(92) vi 398 pp. [publication dated 1836-1837 Kluge, A.G. 1971. John Edward Gray and "The Zoological Miscellany". In Gray, J.E. (1831–1844). The Zoological Miscellany. [reprint]. U.S.A. Misc. Publ. of Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles.] [302] [unjustified emendation of Psittacus funereus Shaw, 1794, see ICZN Art. 33(b)].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Schodde, R. in Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1997. Aves (Columbidae to Coraciidae). In, Houston, W.W.K. & Wells, A. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia Vol. 37.2 xiii 440 pp. [86]

Generic Combinations

Zanda funerea (Shaw, 1794). —
Mathews, G.M. 1917. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 6 pts 2 pp.105-516 pls 283-324. [Date published Sept. 1917: publication dated as 1916–1917] [138]
Calyptorynchus funereus (Shaw, 1794). —
Stephens, J.F. 1826. In, General Zoology or Systematic Natural History, commenced by the late George Shaw, M.D.F.R.S. & C. Aves. London : J. & A. Arch etc. Vol. XIV Pt I 385 pp. pls 1-41. [published late 1826] [109] (new combination)
Calyptorhynchus funereus funereus (Shaw, 1794). —
Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [262]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Coastal SE Australia, north to Drummond, Expedition and Dawes Ranges and Fraser Is., QLD, south to all Gippsland, VIC, at least to head of Port Phillip Bay, and inland to inner western slopes of Great Dividing Range (as far as Pilliga Scrub, NSW). Probably intergrades with C. f. whitei Mathews, 1912, in S VIC westwards of Port Phillip Bay.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Flinders (FLI), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, arthropod-feeder, diurnal, granivore, gregarious, nomadic, open forest, tall forest, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, sexually dimorphic, feeds arboreally primarily on wood-boring larvae of cossid moths and cerambycid beetles, and also seeds of proteads (for example, Banksia) and exotic conifers, flies over forest canopy with slow buoyant wing beats and protracted glides, roosts in small groups, nests in large tree hollows lined with wood chips, female alone broods and feeds yellow-downed chicks, wanders regionally to seasonal food sources.