Chlamydera nuchalis subsp. yorki Mayr and Jennings
Creators
- 1. Department of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History
Description
Chlamydera nuchalis yorki Mayr and Jennings
Chlamydera nuchalis yorki Mayr and Jennings, 1952: 14 (Utingu, Cape York).
Now Chlamydera nuchalis orientalis Gould, 1879. See Mayr, 1962c: 180; Gilliard, 1969: 371–373; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 636–637; Dickinson, 2003: 428; and Frith and Frith, 2004: 424–426; 2009a: 403.
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 679231, adult female, collected at Utingu, Cape York, Queensland, Australia, on 22 June 1912, by Robin Kemp (no. 1103). From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: In the original description, Mayr and Jennings cited the AMNH number of the holotype and gave wing measurements for the following Cape York specimens: adult and subadult males, five; immature males, one; adult females, five; immature females, four. They noted that the population from Cairns and Cooktown was intermediate between yorki and orientalis, and thus not included in yorki. Because Mayr and Jennings thought that many of the specimens were incorrectly sexed, they wrote their determination of sex on the reverse of the label. In the following list of paratypes, the sex assigned the specimens by Mayr and Jennings is listed first, followed by the sex given by the collector in brackets. Paratypes of yorki: Watson River, AMNH 679222, adult male [male], AMNH 679223, immature female [female], 22–26 June 1914, probably collected by W.R. Maclennan; Cable Station, Cape York, AMNH 679224, immature male [male], 30 April 1913, collected by Robin Kemp; Utingu, Cape York, AMNH 679225, adult male [male], AMNH 679226, immature female [male?], AMNH 679227, adult female [male], AMNH 679228, adult male [male], AMNH 679229, subadult male [male], AMNH 679230, adult female [female], AMNH 679232, adult female [female], AMNH 679233, immature female [female], AMNH 679234, immature female [female?], all collected between 22 June and 28 September 1912, by Robin Kemp. One male and one adult female listed by Mayr and Jennings are not among the paratypes above. A possible paratype is AMNH 679221, male, Karumba, Norman River, 19 April 1914, collected by Robin Kemp.
Schodde and Mason (1999: 636–637) did not recognize yorki and subsequent authors have agreed.
According to Jack (1921: 342, 749) Utingu was a coconut plantation opposite Possession Island, 10.43S, 142.24E (USBGN, 1957).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- AMNH
- Event date
- 1912-06-22
- Family
- Ptilonorhynchidae
- Genus
- Chlamydera
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- AMNH 679231
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Mayr and Jennings
- Species
- yorki
- Taxon rank
- subSpecies
- Type status
- holotype
- Verbatim event date
- 1912-06-22
References
- Mayr, E., and K. Jennings. 1952. Geographic variation and plumages in Australian bowerbirds (Ptilonorhynchidae). American Museum Novitates 1602: 1 - 18.
- Mayr, E. 1962 c. Family Ptilonorhynchidae. In E. Mayr and J. C. Greenway, Jr. (editors). Checklist of birds of the world, 15: 172 - 181. Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, x + 315 pp.
- Gilliard, E. T. 1969. Birds of paradise and bower birds. Garden City, NY: Natural History Press, xxii + 485 pp, pls, 32 photographs.
- Schodde, R., and I. J. Mason. 1999. The directory of Australian birds. Passerines. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing, 851 pp.
- Dickinson, E. C. 2003. The Howard and Moore complete checklist of the birds of the world, 3 rd ed. London: Christopher Helm, 1039 pp.
- Frith, C. B., and D. W. Frith. 2004. The bowerbirds Ptilonorhynchidae. Oxford: Oxford University Press, xxiii + 508 pp, 8 pls., maps, photographs.
- Frith, C. B., and D. W. Frith. 2009 a. Family Ptilonorhynchidae (bowerbirds). Species accounts. In J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott and D. A. Christie (editors). Handbook of the birds of the world. Vol. 14, Bush-shrikes to Old World sparrows: 393 - 403. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 893 pp, 51 pls., photographs.
- Jack, R. L. 1921. Northmost Australia. Three centuries of exploration, discovery, and adventure in and around the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland. 2 vols. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 768 pp.