Frank
The master spreadsheet
http://www.worldbirdnames.org/master_ioc_list_v3.4.xls at the IOC World
Bird Names website has a full breakdown of the species and subspecies in
this taxonomy with a brief description of range.
HBW has 20 subspecies of Rainbow Lorikeet, while the IOC appears to have 22
subspecies across 7 species. The only subspecies on the IOC spreadsheet
with a reference to Cape York is a subspecies of the split Rainbow
Lorikeet, T. m. sepentrionalis. The range of T. h. caeruleiceps is
described as sc New Guinea, and no races of Coconut Lorikeet are described
as having a range in Australia.
On 22 August 2013 13:39, Frank O'Connor <> wrote:
>
> I have further googled Coconut Lorikeet, and looked up the field guides.
> I have just looked up HANZAB. This is of course a little dated now, but
> it does state a separate sub species on northern Cape York and the Torres
> Strait and nearby PNG. It is sub species T. h. caeruleiceps.
>
> It looks like the IOC has split Rainbow Lorikeet (formerly about 22 sub
> species), but kept the common name with the Australian species T.
> mollucanus rather than the former nominate which is now called Coconut
> Lorikeet. So it appears that Coconut Lorikeet in Australia is T. h.
> caeruleiceps.
>
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