Lalage leucopyga leucopyga Gould, 1838
Norfolk (Island) triller, Norfolk (Island) long-tailed triller, Norfolk caterpillar-catcher
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
A complete synonymy taken from (Checklist Committee (OSNZ), 2010:293):
Symmorphus leucopygus Gould, 1838: Synop. Birds Australia 4, App.: 3 – “New South Wales”, error for Norfolk Island (fide Mathews 1928, Birds Norfolk & Lord Howe Islands: 45).; Lalage naevia leucopyga (Gould); Mathews 1912, Novit. Zool. 18(3): 449.; Diaphoropterus leucopygus (Gould); Mathews 1928, Birds Norfolk & Lord Howe Islands: 45.; Lalage leucopyga (Gould); Wakelin 1968, Notornis 15: 172.; Lalage leucopyga leucopyga (Gould); Schodde & Mason 1999, Directory Australian Birds. Passerines: 592.; Campephaga longicaudata Pelzeln, 1860: Sitzungsber. K. Akad. Wissen., Math.-Naturwissen. Cl., Wien 41: 321 – Norfolk Island.
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: 1942 (Schodde et al., 1983); 1962 (Knox & Walters, 1994:192); 1976 (Tennyson & Martinson 2007:114, 155)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Norfolk Island, Australia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
[url=http://nlbif.eti.uva.nl/naturalis/detail.php?lang=uk&id=20]RMNH 110.019[/url]
Media
Above: illustration from Mathews (1928).
Above: Norfolk Island Triller. Lalage leucopyga. From the series: Extinct Birds of New Zealand., 2004, Masterton, by Paul Martinson. Purchased 2006. © Te Papa. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Te Papa (2006-0010-1/5)
References
Original scientific description:
Gould, John. (1838). Descriptions of new species of Australian Birds. Principally in the author's collection, with characters of several new genera, p. 2. In: "A synopsis of the birds of Australia, and the adjacent islands. Part IV. London: Self published.
Other references:
BirdLife International. (2012). Lalage leucopyga. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 29 May 2013.
Checklist Committee (OSNZ). (2010). Checklist of the Birds of New Zealand, Norfolk and Macquarie Islands, and the Ross Dependency, Antarctica (4th ed.). Ornithological Society of New Zealand & Te Papa Press, Wellington. [p. 293]
Christidis, L. and Boles, W. E. (1994) The taxonomy and species of birds of Australia and its territories. Melbourne: Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union (RAOU Monogr 2).
Garnett, Stephen (ed.). (1992). Threatened and Extinct Birds of Australia. RAOU Report Number 82. 212 pp.
Garnett, S. T. and Crowley, G. M. (2000). The Action Plan for Australian Birds 2000. Canberra, ACT: Environment Australia & Birds Australia.
Holdaway, Richard N., Worthy, Trevor H. and Tennyson, Alan J. D. (2001). A working list of breeding bird species of the New Zealand region at first human contact. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 28: 119-187.
Hull, Arthur Francis Basset. (1909). The birds of Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 34: 636-693, pls. l-liv. [p. 684]
Knox, Alan G. and Walters, Michael P. (1994). Extinct and endangered birds in the collections of The Natural History Museum. British Ornithologists' Club Occasional Publications 1: 1-292. [pp. 192-194]
Mathews, Gregory Macalister. (1928). The Birds of Norfolk & Lord Howe Islands and the Australasian South Polar Quadrant: with additions to "birds of Australia". London: H.F. & G. Witherby. xii + 139 pp, pls 1-45. [p. 45-46, pl. 25]
Mayr, Ernst and Ripley, Sidney Dillon. (1941). Birds collected during the Whitney South Sea Expedition. 44, Notes on the genus Lalage Boie. American Museum Novitates 1116: 1-18.
Meredith, C.W. 1991. Vertebrate fossil faunas from islands in Australasia and the southwest Pacific. Pp. 1345–1381. In: Rich, P.V.; Monaghan, J.M.; Baird, R.F. & Rich, T.H. (Eds). Vertebrate palaeontology of Australasia. Melbourne: Pioneer Design Studio and Monash University Publications Committee. 1437 pp.
Robinson, D. (1988). Ecology and management of the Scarlet Robin, White-breasted White-eye and Long-billed White-eye on Norfolk Island. Report to the Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service, Canberra.
Schodde, R.; Fullagar, P.; Hermes, N. (1983). A review of Norfolk Island birds: past and present. Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service, Canberra.
Stattersfield, A. J., Crosby, M. J., Long, A. J. and Wege, D. C. (1998) Endemic bird areas of the world: priorities for bird conservation. Cambridge, U.K.: BirdLife International (BirdLife Conservation Series 07).
Tennyson, A.J.D. & Martinson, P. 2007. Extinct birds of New Zealand, rev. edn. Wellington: Te Papa Press. vi + 180 pp.
Woinarski, John C. Z., Legge, Sarah M. and Garnett, Stephen T. (2024). Extinct Australian birds: numbers, characteristics, lessons and prospects. Emu 124(1): 8-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/01584197.2023.2240345
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