Species Urodynamis taitensis (Sparrman, 1787)

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Species Urodynamis taitensis (Sparrman, 1787)

Long-tailed Koel, Koekoea

Cuculus taitensis Sparrman, A. 1787. Museum Carlsonianum. In quo Novas et Selectas Aves, Coloribus ad vivum brevique descriptione illustratas, Suasu et Sumtibus Generosissimi Possessoris. Holmiae : Typographia Regia Fasc. 2 pls 26-50. [publication dated as 1786–1789 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. Zimmer, J.T. 1926. Catalogue of the Edward E. Ayer Ornithological Library. Field Museum of Natural History Publications, Zoological Series 16: 1–364 (Pt 1, Publ. 239), 365–706 (Pt 2, Publ. 240)] [text to pl. 32] [also as incorrect subsequent spellings, tahituis by Gmelin, J.F. 1788. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Linné, editio decima tertia, aucta, reformata. Regnum Animalium. Leipzig (Lipsiae) : G.E. Beer Pt 1 pp. 1–500 [For publication date 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] (412), taitiensis by Vieillot, L.P. in Bonnaterre (L'Abbé) & Viellot, L.P. 1823. Tableau Encyclopédique et Méthodique des Trois Règnes de la Nature. Ornithologie, Troisieme partie. Paris : Agasse livr. 93 pp. 849–1460 (1329), tahitiensis by Cassin, J. 1858. United States Exploring Expedition. During the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. Under the command of Charles Wilkes, U.S.N. Vol. VIII (revised) and Atlas Mammalogy and Ornithology. Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott & Co. viii 466 pp. 53 pls (text to pl. 22, fig. 2), and tahitensis by Potts, T.H. 1870. On the birds of New Zealand. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 3: 59–109 [Waterhouse, F.H. 1885. The Dates of Publication of some of the Zoological Works of the late John Gould, F.R.S. London : R.H. Porter xi 59 pp. [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. Mathews, G.M. 1919. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 7 pt 5 pp. 385–499 + xii pls 363–370 Appendixes A & B (Appendix B)]]].
Type data:
Syntype(s) NHRM (institution uncertain, figured on pl. 32 in Sparrman, A. 1789. Museum Carlsonianum. In quo Novas et Selectas Aves, Coloribus ad vivum brevique descriptione illustratas, Suasu et Sumtibus Generosissimi Possessoris. Holmiae : Typographia Regia Fasc. 2 pls 26–50 pp. [publication dated as 1786–1789 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. Zimmer, J.T. 1926. Catalogue of the Edward E. Ayer Ornithological Library. Field Museum of Natural History Publications, Zoological Series 16: 1–364 (Pt 1, Publ. 239), 365–706 (Pt 2, Publ. 240)]), Tahiti, Society Islands (published without locality)
Comment: for identification of type material, see Sundevall, C.J. 1857. Kritisk framställning af fogelarterna uti äldre Ornithologiska arbeten. I. Museum Carlsonianum. II. Le Vaillant, Oiseaux d'Afrique. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar ns 2(3): 16–60.
Urodynamis taitensis belli Mathews, G.M. 1918. In Proceedings of meeting of British Ornithologists' Club, November 13, 1918. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 39: 23-25 [24] [holotype apparently figured on pl. 19 and described in detail on p. 31 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:
Holotype AMNH 627566 ♂ adult (G.M. Mathews' coll. no. unspecified), Watermill Creek, Norfolk Is. (as Norfolk Island)
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.
Type locality references:
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.

Distribution

Other Regions

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

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, arthropod-feeder, carnivorous, closed forest, diurnal, low open woodland, migratory, open heath, open scrub, solitary, tall forest, tall open shrubland, volant, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

General carnivore, seasonal breeder, solitary in tree canopy, feeds by perch-and-pounce sallying on insects, small herptiles and eggs and nestlings of other birds, flies gracefully in shallow undulations, brood parasite, passage migrant, passes through Australian territories en route to breeding range in New Zealand and its island dependencies and to non-breeding range from eastern Papuasia through Melanesia and Micronesia to eastern Polynesia.