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SOUTH AUSTRALIA Ilrr Fig. l-Port Lincoln Parrot and Mallee Ringneck. Fig. 2-Crimson, Adelaide, and Yellow Rosellas. I~ I~ September, 1954 THE S.A. ORNITHOLOGIST 41 BIRD MAPS-l By H. T. CONDON, S.A. Museum. The accompanying maps (figs. 1.6) supple. of Scrub-Wrens an'd have: supplied a map. ment my remarks in the previous. number. of In South Australia Sericornis shows a prefer. this journal (pp. 17-27). The mforma~lOn ence for coastal regions, but its extent west now supplied is more accurate than that given wards beyond Ceduna is unknown. Several by Terrill and Rix (1950), although well-marked races occur, and the Eyre Penin numerous gaps still-remain and certain alleged sula form has been observed or taken at the records must be regarded as extremely doubt: following localities: Arno Bay, Coffin Bay, ful. Cowell, Cummins, Davenport Creek (28 miles Fig.l-BARNARDIUS S. of Koonibba}, Denial Bay, Elliston, Kel Several forms of this genus occur in South lidie Bay, Lakes Hamilton and Wangary, Australia, and two groups of races may be Marble Range, Mount Dutton; Murat Bay, recognised, roughly east and west of Iongi Port Lincoln, Warunda, Wanilla, and Thistle tude 138 deg, respectively. Widely distri and Williams Islands, as well as Corney Point, buted in the mallee areas of Eyre Peninsula Pondalowie Bay, and Port Broughton on and extending into Western Australia is the Yorke Peninsula. Birds at inland localities dark-headed Port Lincoln Parrot {zonarius s, were found in dense undergrowth, scrub, str.] . It is replaced in the vicinity of the and along watercourses. central highlands beyond Oodnadatta by the On Kangaroo Island it has been recorded dark-headed race myrtae which is of lighter from Kingscote, Rocky Point, Rocky River, body hue and perhaps also sliglJ.t;ly larger. Snug Cove, Stokes and Vivonne Bays. Zonarius extends to the western slopes of the On the shores of St. Vincent Gulf from the Flinders Ranges and the area east of Lake Torrens. Reedbeds, Grange, Outer Harbor, St: Kilda, Port Gawler and northwards to Price, Sericor Two other dark-headed races, but with the nis lives in the coastal swamps, mangroves, red forehead and body coloration of barnardi, samphire, and lignum, while in the Mount occur in the Flinders Ranges and may serve Lofty Ranges it occurs in thickets and dense as a link between the dark·headed zonarius undergrowth, often along watercourses. Re in the west and the light-crowned barnardi of the eastern mallee. cords from the Mt, Lofty Ranges include Aldgate, Ambleside, Belair, Crafers, Cape Fig.2.-PLATYCERCUS Jervis, Eden, Gawler Creek, Highercombe, Except in the immediate vicinity of the National Park, Onka,paringa River, Deep, River Murray and in districts south of Peter. Tunkalilla and Waitpinga Creeks, Upper borough and in the lower Flinders Ranges, Sturt, and the upper reaches of the River the Rosellas and Ring-necks (genera Barnar: Torrens. dius and Platycercus) mutually exclude each In the south-eastern coastal regions Scrub. other-see figs. 1 and 2. For comments on Wrens have been recorded from Beachport, the various forms of Platycercus elegans see Chinaman's Well, Comung, Coorong., Glenelg previous issue, pp. 21-22. The exact boun River, Kingston, 'Konetta,' LandIock (Lake dary between adelaidae and subadelaidae is Alexandrina}, Lakes Hawdon and Bonney, unknown, and the northern limit of the latter Millicent, Mundoo Island, Mt. Gambier, Nora also requires clarification. Ashby (1925, p. Creina Bay, Robe, Salt Creek area, Young. 90) shows subadelaidae (under "flaveolns") husband Peninsula, etc. as extending north to about 31 deg, S. lati Taxonomically. the race rosinae appears to tude (!), and the writer at one time (1941, serve as a link between the two species p, 137) also believed it occurred beyond 'frontalis' and 'maculatus' of the 1926 Leigh Creek. It now seems likely that sub. R.A.O.U. Checklist. See also Condon (1951, adelaidae does not occur normally very far p.47). ' north of 'Quorn (e.g, see Storr, 1952, p. 92). Fig. 4-ACANTHIZA' IREDALEI Fig. 3-SERICORNIS It is surprising how little has been recorded Mayr and Walk (1953) have now listed regarding the' occurrence of" the Samphire the South-west Australian races of this genus (Dark) Thornhill in northern regions of South tt)
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Australia. Parsons (1921) has stated that occur in certain areas (indicated on the map it was "often met with in the saltbush" along by vertical lines-see also Terrill and Rix, the Birdsville track, and in the far north. 1950, p. 99; Condon, 1954, p. 21). There west specimens were taken by S. A. White at seems to be a tendency for "black-backs" to Moorilyanna and Wantapella. It has also invade the territory of "white-backs" rather been collected at Stuart Range and Nackara than the reverse process, despite the fact that (north-east of Peterborough). there have been a few doubtful records of According to some writers it occurs all over "white-hacks" (indicated by crosses on map) the Nullarbor Plain; White obtained speci in the far north. mens at Ooldea and there have been reports REFERENCES. of the species from near Eucla. Ashby, E. 1925. The Adelaide Rosella (Pla .Hix (1950) has observed a bird which he tycercus adelaidae). Emu, 25, p. 90. believes may be this species "in considerable numbers in the coastal areas of southern Eyre Condon, H. T. 1941. The Australian Broacl Peninsula." For other references see Condon tailed Parrots (Subfamily Platycerci (1954, pp. 24-25). nae), Rec, S. Aust, Mus., 7, pp.1l7-144. Fig. 5-MELlPHAGA PENICILLATA Condon, H. T. 1951. Notes on the Birds of South Australia. S. Austr. Orn., 20, pp. White-plumed Honeyeaters or 'Greenies' 26-28.. from southern Victoria, the South-East of South Australia, and the Mount Lofty Ranges Condon, H. T. 1954,. Remarks on the Evolu are dark-colored and readily separable under tion of Australian Birds. ihid., 21, pp. the name mellori. Interior birds are always 17·27. pale: the mallee form is the nominate race, Mayr, E., and R. Wolk. 1953. Tht? South whilst in the' Flinders Ranges a bird of . west Australian Races of the Spotted similar coloration but larger size occurs Scrub-Wren, Sericornis maculatus, W. (rosinae), Austr. Nat., 4, (3), pp. 65-70. Although Terrill and Rix (1950,' p. 96) Parsons.'F. E. 1921. Notes on a Motor Trip have stated that it is doubtful if leilavalensis from 'Adeiaide to W. Qld, S. Austr. Om., occurs in South Australia, it is a fact that 6, p. 21. this yellow form is found in northern dis Serventy, .D. L. ,and H .M. Whittell. 1951. tricts; it also inhabits a wide area in the Bds. of W. Austr. . interior of Queensland, western New South Terrill, S. E., and C. E. Rix. 1950. The Birds Wales, the Northern Territory, and parts of of South Australia, etc. S. Austr, Orn., Western Australia. 19, pp. 53-100. Note the general absence of records of Whittell, H. M., and D. L. Serventy. -1948. this"species from west of the Flinders Ranges Syst, List Bds. W. Austr, Govt. Printer, and the Lake Eyre Basin. A single report . Perth. . from' the Nullarbor Plain may refer to another -----:0:0::----- species, whilst the records from Kangaroo Island and Eyre and Yorke Peninsulas are surely abnormal.' . In Western Australia the southern limit of the species links up with the records from the Mann and Musgrave Ranges in South Australia (cf. Serventy and Whittell, 1951, fig. 6, p. 54). ' .. Fig. 6-GYMNORHINA The white-backed Magpie of the Australian mainland (leuconota} is confined to the south eastern corner of the continent. In South Australia it is,'not found far inland, being replaced by the black-backed form {tibicen] whose distribution in" the ' far-north and interior is "spotty." Both kinds as well as 'hybrids' normally