Dulit quail

Dulit quail
Dulit quail ( Rhizothera dulitensis )
Systematics
Order : Chicken birds (Galliformes) Family : Pheasants (Phasianidae) Genre : Rhizothera Type : Dulit quail
Scientific name
Rhizothera dulitensis
Ogilvie-Grant , 1895

The dulit quail ( Rhizothera dulitensis ) is a little researched species from the pheasant-like family (Phasianidae). It is endemic in the north of Borneo and was long considered a subspecies of the long-billed quail ( Rhizothera longirostris ), with which it now forms the genus Rhizothera .

features

The dulit quail is a large chicken that reaches a body length of approximately 37 cm. It has a long, curved, gray beak. The male's forehead and neck are brown. The rest of the head to the chin and the upper neck are maroon. The top is brownish. A wide gray band extends from the lower neck to the upper chest and back to the nape of the buttocks and the upper coat. The lowest chest area as well as the belly and the flanks are white. The rump is reddish, the iris is brown, and the legs are yellowish-gray. It differs from the closely related long-billed quail in that the belly and flanks are white (not reddish), the wings have no white spots and the wing covers have no reddish spots and the chest ligament is wider. The female differs from the male by a reddish chest band. The juvenile female has a dark brown stripe above the eyes with yellow-brown shaft stripes, yellow-brown stripes on the sides of the throat and from the chest to the back of the buttocks, no gray underside, dark brown dots on the sides of the chest and a cream-colored belly and flank area. The beak has a bright tip. In the juvenile male, the throat and chin are duller and grayer and there are gray dashes on the sides of the chest and flanks. The belly and rump are light smoke gray.

Occurrence

The dulit quail occurs on Gunung Murud, Gunung Dulit and Balu Song in eastern Sarawak on Borneo. In 1895, Alfred Hart Everett collected two specimens at Kinabalu in Sabah , suggesting that the species was more common earlier.

Habitat and way of life

The dulit quail lives in primary forests in the mountain regions at altitudes from 900 m to 1200 m. Nothing is known about their way of life.

Systematics and nomenclature

The dulit quail was described as an independent species by William Robert Ogilvie-Grant in 1895 . In 1934 it was classified by James Lee Peters as a subspecies of the long-billed quail ( Rhizothera longirostris dulitensis ), which was adopted by subsequent authors (e.g. Madge et al. 2002). In 1999 the dulit quail was again raised to species status. This assessment was followed by the World Bird List of the International Ornithological Congress in 2006, the Handbook of the Birds of the World in 2014, the Howard and Moore Checklist in 2003, and BirdLife International and the IUCN in 2014. In English, the Art also uses the common name Hose's partridge, which refers to the collector of the type specimens , Charles Hose . The scientific species epitheton dulitensis refers to the Gunung Dulit in Sarawak.

literature

• Josep del Hoyo , N. Collar, DA Christie, Guy M. Kirwan : Dulit Partridge (Rhizothera dulitensis). In: J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, DA Christie, E. de Juana (Eds.): Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona (accessed May 27, 2018).
• Ronald Orenstein, Anthony Wong, Nazeri Abghani, David Bakewell, James Eaton, Yeo Siew Teck, Yong Ding Li: Sarawak - a neglected birding destination in Malaysia . In: BirdingASIA . tape 13 , 2010, p. 30-41 ( orientalbirdclub.org [PDF]).
• GWH Davison: Records of Rhizothera (longirostris) dulitensis in Sabah. In: Forktail. 24, 2008, pp. 125-127.

Web links

• BirdLife International: Species Factsheet - Dulit partridge ( Rhizothera dulitensis ) . Retrieved May 27, 2018.
• Rhizothera dulitensis inthe IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017.3. Listed by: BirdLife International, 2016. Retrieved May 27, 2018.

Individual evidence

1. ^ WR Ogilvie-Grant: [ Rhizothera dulitensis ]. In: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 4, 1895, p. 27.
2. ^ JL Peters: Check-list of birds of the world. Vol. II, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1934.
3. ↑ Steve Madge, Phil McGowan, Guy M. Kirwan: Pheasants, Partridges and Grouse. A Guide to the Pheasants, Partridges, Quails, Grouse, Guineafowl, Buttonquails and Sandgrouse of the world . Christopher Helm, London 2002, ISBN 0-7136-3966-0 , p. 32.
4. ^ GWH Davison: Notes on the taxonomy of some Bornean birds. In: Sarawak Mus. J. Vol. 54, No. 75, 1999, pp. 289-299.
5. ↑ Josep del Hoyo, Nigel J. Collar, David A. Christie, Andrew Elliott, Lincoln DC Fishpool: HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Volume 1: Non-passerines. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona 2014.
6. ^ EC Dickinson (ed.): The Howard and Moore complete checklist of the birds of the world. 3. Edition. Christopher Helm, London 2003.