sicklebill
well-known Cretaceous relic
Hoping someone can help Rob Reed who is doing a paper on the ornithological history of Cape York:
I cannot definitively find the locality where Kendall Broadbent obtained this species. De Vis does not refer to it in his 1895 paper: [v.20]=[no.77-80] (1895-1896) - Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales - Biodiversity Heritage Library
Others refer to "N.Q. C. York" eg RAOU 1926 Checklist and Favaloro 1931:
Favaloro, N. J. 1931 Notes on Arses kaupi and Arses lorealis Emu 30:4 241-2
Next to this paper I have penned "Iron Range" but I cannot see any ref where I saw this or why I wrote it! I cannot find the specimen across any of the museum sites, ALA etc.
Significant to this paper as it would be another "first" for the Tip area on top of Gould's many.
Of course what is known is that Barnard procured eggs and skins from the Tip soon after in 1896 and that there was a skin undetected and undescribed from Macleay's set from 1875 where he would have acquired it from the Tip on the Chevert expedition.
I cannot definitively find the locality where Kendall Broadbent obtained this species. De Vis does not refer to it in his 1895 paper: [v.20]=[no.77-80] (1895-1896) - Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales - Biodiversity Heritage Library
Others refer to "N.Q. C. York" eg RAOU 1926 Checklist and Favaloro 1931:
Favaloro, N. J. 1931 Notes on Arses kaupi and Arses lorealis Emu 30:4 241-2
Next to this paper I have penned "Iron Range" but I cannot see any ref where I saw this or why I wrote it! I cannot find the specimen across any of the museum sites, ALA etc.
Significant to this paper as it would be another "first" for the Tip area on top of Gould's many.
Of course what is known is that Barnard procured eggs and skins from the Tip soon after in 1896 and that there was a skin undetected and undescribed from Macleay's set from 1875 where he would have acquired it from the Tip on the Chevert expedition.