This is a muddle !! Would someone please make a clear definitive statement
about this(these) species and subs. Thank you. Or is it that nobody really
knows ?
Tony.
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Sent: Thursday, 22 August 2013 2:25 PM
To: Frank O'Connor
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Subject: Coconut Lorikeet
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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