Notiomystis cincta Du Bus & Gisignies, 1839
North Island stitchbird, Stitchbird, Hihi (Māori)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
A complete synonymy taken from (Checklist Committee (OSNZ), 2022:209-210):
Meliphaga cincta du Bus de Gisignies, 1839: Bull. Acad. Roy. Sci. Bruxelles 6(4): 295, & plate – New Zealand, restricted to North Island (fide Checklist Committee 1953, Checklist N.Z. Birds: 64).; Ptilotis cincta (du Bus de Gisignies); G.R. Gray 1843, in E. Dieffenbach, Travels in N.Z. 2: 187.; Pogonornis cincta (du Bus de Gisignies); G.R. Gray 1862, Ibis 4: 218.; [Notiomystes] cincta cincta (du Bus); Mathews 1935, Bull. Brit. Ornith. Club 55: 159.; Notiomystis cincta (du Bus de Gisignies); Checklist Committee 1953, Checklist N.Z. Birds: 64.; Ptilotis auritus Lafresnaye, 1839: Rev. de Zool., Paris 2: 257 – New Zealand, restricted to North Island (fide Mathews 1935, Bull. Brit. Ornith. Club 55: 159 (as auritris [sic])).; [Notiomystes] auritris [sic] Lafresnaye, 1839; Mathews 1935, Bull. Brit. Ornith. Club 55: 159.; Notiomystes cincta hautura Mathews, 1935: Bull. Brit. Ornith. Club 55: 159 – Little Barrier Island.;
The nominate subspecies, Notiomystis cincta cincta, was suggested to be synonymous with the only other subspecies, Notiomystes cincta hautura, by (Higgins & Christidis, 2009), which would qualify the nominate as taxonomically rediscovered. The formal synonymisation has been made by at least (Checklist Committee (OSNZ), 2022:210).
Conservation Status
Last record: c. 1885?
Taxonomically rediscovered (see above)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Great Barrier Island (Aotea), Kapiti Island, Little Barrier Island (Hauturu) & North Island, New Zealand
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
(Du Bus de Gisignies) 1839 Bull.Acad.R.Sci.Lettr.Beaux-ArtsBelg. 6 pt1 no.4 p.295 pl.
Other references:
Angehr, G.R. 2011. Designation of a lectotype for Notiomystis cincta hautura Mathews, 1935 (Aves: Passeriformes: Meliphagidae). Zootaxa 2754: 67–68.
Anonymous. (1964). List of rare birds, including those thought to be so but of which detailed information is still lacking. IUCN Bulletin 10(Special Supplement): 4 pp.
BirdLife International. (2012). Notiomystis cincta. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 30 May 2013.
Brekke, P., Bennett, P.M., Santure, A.W. & Ewen, J.G. (2011) High genetic diversity in the remnant island population of hihi and the genetic consequences of re-introduction. Molecular Ecology, 20, 29–45.
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. 284, 356]
Checklist Committee (OSNZ). (2022). Checklist of the Birds of New Zealand (5th edition). Ornithological Society of New Zealand Occasional Publication No. 1. Wellington: Ornithological Society of New Zealand. [p. 209-210]
Ghiraldi, Luca and Aimassi, Giorgio. (2019). Extinct and endangered (‘E&E’) birds in the ornithological collection of the Museum of Zoology of Torino University, Italy. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 139(1): 28-45.
Higgins, P. J. and Christidis, L. (2009). Family Notiomystidae. In: Handbook of the birds of the world. Volume 13, Penduline-tits to shrikes. Lynx.
Miskelly, C.M. & Powlesland, R.G. 2013. Conservation translocations of New Zealand birds, 1863–2012. Notornis 60: 3–28.
Williams, H.W. 1906. Maori bird names. Journal of the Polynesian Society 15: 193–208.
Worthy, Trevor H. and Holdaway, Richard N. (2000). Terrestrial fossil vertebrate faunas from inland Hawke's Bay, North Island, New Zealand. Part 1. Records of the Canterbury Museum 14: 89-154.