Subspecies Scythrops novaehollandiae novaehollandiae Latham, 1790
- Scythrops novaehollandiae Latham, J. 1790. Index ornithologicus, sive Systema Ornithologiae; complectens avium divisionem in classes, ordines, genera, species, ipsarumque varietates: adjectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibus, &c. London : Leigh & Sotheby Vol. 1 & 2 xviii 920 pp. [141] [as novae Hollandiae; based on the Psittaceous Hornbill on plate opposite p. 165 in Phillip, A. 1789. The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay; with an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson & Norfolk Island compiled from authentic papers. London : J. Stockdale viii x 298 lxxiv pp. 54 pls; because Phillip and Surgeon-General John White drew their material from the same sources at Port Jackson, it is possible that the specimen identified by von Pelzeln, A. 1873. On the birds in the Imperial Collection at Vienna obtained from the Leverian Museum. Ibis 3 3: 14–54 in NHMW as possible 'type' of the Anomalous Hornbill in White, J. 1790. Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales with Sixty-five Plates of Non descript Animals, Birds, Lizards, Serpents, curious Cones of Trees and other Natural Productions. London : J. Debrett 299 pp. 65 pls [published before Aug.] (142–143) is also a type of Scythrops novaehollandiae Latham, 1790—but according to White, more than one specimen is involved].
Type data:
Holotype whereabouts unknown (uncertain, possibly NHMW, ex Leverian Museum cat. no. 131, figured on plate opposite p. 165 in Phillip, A. 1789. The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay; with an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson & Norfolk Island compiled from authentic papers. London : J. Stockdale viii x 298 lxxiv pp. 54 pls), region of Port Jackson, NSW (as nova Hollandia). - Scythrops psittaceus Kerr, R. 1792. The Animal Kingdom, or Zoological System, of the celebrated Sir Charles Linnaeus; being a translation of that part of the Systema Naturae, as lately published, with great improvements, by Professor Gmelin of Goettingen. Class II. Birds. London : J. Murray & R. Faulder xii 644 pp. [619] [nom. nov. for Scythrops novaehollandiae Latham, 1790].
- Scythrops australasiae Shaw, G. 1812. General Zoology, or Systematic Natural History. Aves. London : Kearsley, Wilkie & Robinson Vol. VIII Pt 2 vi pp. 244-557 pls 46-84. [Date published 1811] [378] [based partly on Scythrops novaehollandiae Latham, 1790 and the Anomalous Hornbill of White, J. 1790. Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales with Sixty-five Plates of Non descript Animals, Birds, Lizards, Serpents, curious Cones of Trees and other Natural Productions. London : J. Debrett 299 pp. 65 pls [published before Aug.] (143)—and open to interpretation as nom. nov. for Scythrops novaehollandiae Latham, 1790, based on same material; syntype figured on pl. 50 of original description; usually considered published in 1811, see Shelley, G.E. 1891. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Picariae-Cuculidae. London : British Museum Vol. 19 xii 484 pp. 13 pls; Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171–455 [publication dated Jan. 1912, published 31 Jan.] and subsequent revisions; Peters, J.L. 1940. Check-list of Birds of the World. Cambridge : Harvard University Press Vol. 4 xii 291 pp.; Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia Pt 1 Non-passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp.].
Type data:
Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (?lost, figured on pl. 50 in Shaw, G. 1812. General Zoology, or Systematic Natural History. Aves. London : Kearsley, Wilkie & Robinson Vol. VIII Pt 2 vi pp. 244–557 pls 46–84 [publication dated 1811], also that of Scythrops novaehollandiae Latham, 1790, q.v.), New South Wales (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]. - Scythrops australis 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.] [299] [based on the Anomalous Hornbill on plate opposite p. 142 in White, J. 1790. Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales with Sixty-five Plates of Non descript Animals, Birds, Lizards, Serpents, curious Cones of Trees and other Natural Productions. London : J. Debrett 299 pp. 65 pls [published before Aug.]; the specimen on which this plate is based may be in NHMW, see von Pelzeln, A. 1873. On the birds in the Imperial Collection at Vienna obtained from the Leverian Museum. Ibis 3 3: 14–54—but more than one specimen is involved, see White (1790)].
Type data:
Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (uncertain, possibly NHMW (ex Leverian Museum cat. no. 131) figured on pl. opposite p. 142 in White, J. 1790. Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales with Sixty-five Plates of Non descript Animals, Birds, Lizards, Serpents, curious Cones of Trees and other Natural Productions. London : J. Debrett 299 pp. 65 pls [published before Aug.]), region of Port Jackson, NSW (as Australia).Type locality references:
White, J. 1790. Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales with Sixty-five Plates of Non descript Animals, Birds, Lizards, Serpents, curious Cones of Trees and other Natural Productions. London : J. Debrett 299 pp. 65 pls. [published before Aug.] [142-143]. - Cuculus praesagus Bonaparte, C.L. 1850. Conspectus Generum Avium. Tom. I. Lugduni, Batavorum : E.J. Brill 543 pp. [Date published 24 Jun 1850] [97] [based on a manuscript name of Reinwardt, in turn based on material from Sulawesi, see Temminck, C.J. in Temminck, C.J. In Temminck, C.J. & Laugier de Chartrouse, M. 1838. Nouveau Recueil de Planches Coloriées d'Oiseaux, pour servir de suite et de complément aux planches enluminées de Buffon. Paris : G. Levrault livr. 42 pp. [published Jan. 1824]—but published as synonym of Scythrops novaehollandiae Latham, 1790, interpretable as a nom. nov. for that name based on same type, and unavailable under ICZN Art. 11(e)].
- Scythrops novaehollandiae neglectus Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [297] [holotype probably illustrated on pl. 361 and described in detail on p. 377 in Mathews, G.M. 1918. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 7 pt 4 pp. 321–384 pls 352–362 [19 Dec. 1918]].
Type data:
Holotype AMNH 629004 ♂ (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. 1480), Parry's Creek, north WA
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.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
All coastal and subcoastal north and east Australia, west to Kimberley Division, WA-south in west to central Fitzroy River-Christmas Creek, WA, the upper Victoria River drainage and Barkly Tableland, NT, and Selwyn Range, QLD, and inland in east to Longreach and Cunnamulla, QLD, Moree, Gilgandra and Dubbo, NSW, contracting south-east as far as Bega on coast, straggling inland to upper channel country of Diamantina and Cooper drainage, QLD, rarely reaching Lake Eyre, SA, Bulloo River basin, QLD and east VIC-also Buccaneer and Bonaparte Archipelagos, Melville-Bathurst Ils, Groote Eylandt, Sir Edward Pellew Group, Mornington Is., islands in Torres Strait, and Dunk, Brampton and Fraser Ils-vagrant to VIC, TAS, New Zealand, and New Caledonia.
IBRA
NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Flinders (FLI), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), King (KIN), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)
IMCRA
Norfolk Island Province (21)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
- Norfolk Island
- Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf, N coastal
- South Australia: Lake Eyre basin
- Tasmania
- Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
- Western Australia: N coastal
- Indonesia
- Irian Jaya
- New Caledonia
- New Zealand
- Papua New Guinea
Ecological Descriptors
Arboreal, arthropod-feeder, closed forest, diurnal, frugivorous, gregarious, low woodland, migratory, open forest, volant, woodland.
Extra Ecological Information
Randomly dispersed, seasonal breeder, solitary, in pairs or small groups, feeds arboreally mainly on fruit (e.g., Ficus spp.) and less commonly insects (Coleoptera, Orthoptera, Phasmatodea), often perches on high exposed branches, flies in graceful cuckoo-like undulations over tree tops, brood parasite parasitizing Corvus spp., Strepera graculina (Shaw, 1790) and Gymnorhina tibicen (Latham, 1802), disperses on migration to Papuasia, Moluccas and Lesser Sundas in Mar.-Apr. and returns to breed Aug.-Sept.
General References
Brooker, M.G. & Brooker, L.C. 1989. Cuckoo hosts in Australia. Australian Zoological Reviews 2: 1-67 (nidification)
Coates, B.J. 1985. The Birds of Papua New Guinea, including the Bismarck Archipelago and Bougainville. Non-Passerines. Alderley, Qld : Dove Publications Vol. 1 464 pp. 493 pls. (morphology, nidification, voice, diet)
Goddard, M.T. & Marchant, S. 1983. The parasitic habits of the Channel-billed Cuckoo Scythrops novaehollandiae in Australia. Australian Birds 17: 65-72 [Duncan, F.M. 1937. On the dates of publication of the Society's 'Proceedings', 1859–1926. With an appendix containing the dates of publication of 'Proceedings', 1830–1858, compiled by the late F.H. Waterhouse, and of the 'Transactions', 1833–1869, by the late Henry Peavot, originally published in P.Z.S. 1893, 1913. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 107: 71–84] (nidification)
Johnson, C.N. 1983. Courtship feeding and mating in the Channel-billed Cuckoo. Corella 7: 44 [Mathews, G.M. 1925. The Birds of Australia. Supplements 4 & 5. Bibliography of the Birds of Australia Pts 1 & 2. London : H.F. & G. Witherby viii 149 pp.] (nidification)
Mason, I.J. in Schodde, R. & Tidemann, S.C. (consultant eds) 1986. Reader's Digest Complete Book of Australian Birds. Sydney : Reader's Digest 639 pp. (morphology, nidification, behaviour)
McCulloch, E.M. 1980. The Channel-billed Cuckoo. Bird Observer (Australia) 581: 42-43 [Duncan, F.M. 1937. On the dates of publication of the Society's 'Proceedings', 1859–1926. With an appendix containing the dates of publication of 'Proceedings', 1830–1858, compiled by the late F.H. Waterhouse, and of the 'Transactions', 1833–1869, by the late Henry Peavot, originally published in P.Z.S. 1893, 1913. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 107: 71–84] (general behaviour)
Morris, A.K. 1980. The Channel-billed Cuckoo in the Coonabarrabran District. Bird Observer (Australia) 584: 71 [Duncan, F.M. 1937. On the dates of publication of the Society's 'Proceedings', 1859–1926. With an appendix containing the dates of publication of 'Proceedings', 1830–1858, compiled by the late F.H. Waterhouse, and of the 'Transactions', 1833–1869, by the late Henry Peavot, originally published in P.Z.S. 1893, 1913. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 107: 71–84] (voice, diet, behaviour)
History of changes
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