Australian Chats (Epthianuridae)
Yellow Chat (Epthianura crocea) - HBW 12, p. 625
French: Epthianure à collier
German: Safrantrugschmätzer
Spanish: Eptianuro Amarillo
Other common names: Yellow-breasted Chat
Taxonomy: Epthianura crocea Castelnau and E. P. Ramsay, 1877, Norman River, Queensland, Australia.
Genus name often spelt erroneously as Ephthianura. Genus was in the past sometimes placed in thornbill family (Acanthizidae), and more recent analyses of DNA-DNA hybridization indicate that it belongs with the honeyeaters (Meliphagidae); further study required. Proposed race boweri (King Sound and R Fitzroy, in N Western Australia) now considered synonymous with nominate. Three subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- tunneyi Mathews, 1912 - NW Northern Territory (W Arnhem Land).
- crocea Castelnau & E. P. Ramsay, 1877 - N Western Australia (SW & NE Kimberley region, King Sound and R Fitzroy) E patchily to E Northern Territory (Barkley Tableland) and W Queensland, thence S to NE South Australia (Eromanga-L Eyre Basin).
- macgregori Keast, 1958 - lower Dawson-Mackenzie Basin, in CE Queensland.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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Two birds perched on branch. Male and female/juvenile? Locality Tablelands Highway, Northern Territory, Australia (ssp crocea)
mkearns 8 April 2008 3 years ago 42 sec 3.5
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non-adult male bird on dried lagoon bed.
Locality Fogg Dam Conservation Reserve, Northern Territory, Australia (ssp tunneyi)
Mat Gilfedder 17 September 2005 2 years ago 2 -
One of three birds present at a wetland caused by an ever-flowing artesian bore in the middle of the desert. Digiscoped in 45C h
Locality Birdsville Track, South Australia, Australia (ssp crocea)
Peter Waanders 20 November 2009 2 years ago 1
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