Artamus personatus

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Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 4,846 meters (0 to 15,899 feet).[1]

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.4     Forest - Temperate   
  
•     1.5     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     1.6     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland   
  
•     1.7     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Mangrove Vegetation Above High Tide Level   
  
•     2     Savanna   
  
•     2.1     Savanna - Dry   
  
•     3     Shrubland   
  
•     3.5     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     3.8     Shrubland - Mediterranean-type Shrubby Vegetation   
  
•     4     Grassland   
  
•     4.4     Grassland - Temperate   
  
•     4.5     Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.1     Artificial/Terrestrial - Arable Land   
  
•     14.2     Artificial/Terrestrial - Pastureland   
  
•     14.6     Artificial/Terrestrial - Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest   
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Taxonomy

Synonyms

Artamus personatus (Gould, 1841)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001

Similar Species

Members of the genus Artamus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 16 species and subspecies in this genus:

A. cinereus (Black-Faced Wood-Swallow) · A. cinereus cinereus (Black-Faced Wood Swallow) · A. cyanopterus (Dusky Wood Swallow) · A. cyanopterus cyanopterus (Dusky Wood Swallow) · A. fuscus (Ashy Swallow-Shrike) · A. insignis (White-Backed Woodswallow) · A. leucorhynchus (White-Breasted Wood-Swallow) · A. leucorhynchus leucorhynchus (White-Breasted Wood Swallow) · A. leucorynchus (White-Breasted Wood-Swallow) · A. leucorynchus leucorynchus (White-Breasted Wood-Swallow) · A. maximus (Black-Breasted Woodswallow) · A. mentalis (Fiji White-Breasted Woodswallow) · A. minor (Little Wood-Swallow) · A. monachus (Ivory-Backed Wood-Swallow) · A. personatus (Masked Wood-Swallow) · A. superciliosus (White-Browed Wood-Swallow)

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Further Reading

• A List of birds' eggs in the collection of Mr. William Stoate, Wembdon, Bridgewater. [188-?] url p. 73.
• A handbook of the destructive insects of Victoria: with notes on the methods to be adopted to check and extirpate them / prepared by order of the Victorian Dept. of Agriculture by C. French. Melbourne: Robt. S. Brain, 1891-1911. url , , , p. 193, p. 193, p. 225, p. 225, p. 225, p. 28, p. 28.
• A history of the birds of Ceylon / London: Published by the author, 1880 [i.e. 1878-1880] url p. 667.
• A list of the insectivorous birds of New South Wales / by Alfred J. North. Sydney: Charles Potter [etc.], Govt. Printer, 1896-1897. url p. 5.
• A record of the A.O.U. expedition to Eyre's Peninsula, October, 1909, with notes on ornithology, botany and entomology / by Capt. S.A. White. Adelaide [New South Wales]: W. K. Thomas & Co., Printers, 1910. url p. 37.
• An Australian bird book: a pocket book for field use / by J. A. Leach; with introduction by Frank Tate; [photos by Ralph L. Miller; paintings by Ethel M. Paterson]. Melbourne: Whitcombe & Tombs, 1911. url p. 147.
• Austral avian record; a scientific journal devoted primarily to the study of the Australian avifauna. London: Witherby. url p. 195, p. 202.
• Australian bird maps. Hobart, Australia: Hall, 1922. url p. 77, p. 77.
• Bee-keeping in Victoria, Melbourne, F. Mullett, Govt. printer[1915?] url , .
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 44.
• Bulletin / Peabody Museum of Natural History. 1970 New Haven: Peabody Museum of Natural History, url fig. 37, p. 77.
• Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. London: The Club, 1893- url p. 115.
• Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. London, 1874-98. url p. 16.
• Catalogue of the collection of birds' eggs in the British Museum (Natural History) London, Printed by order of the Trustees, 1901-12. url p. 259.
• Catalogue of the specimens illustrating the osteology of vertebrated animals, recent and extinct, contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. London, 1891. url p. 27.
• Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 163.
• Descriptive catalogue of the nests & eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania. Sydney, F. W. White, Printer.1889. url .
• Egg collecting and bird life of Australia. Catalogue and data of the "Jacaksonian oological collection, " illustrated with numerous photographs. .. Sydney, F.W. White, Printer, 1907. url p. 70.
• Experiment station record. Washington: G.P.O., 1889-1946. url p. 551.
• Foreign birds for cage and aviary. By Arthur G. Butler London, "The Feathered world"[191-?] url p. 55.
• Handbook to The birds of Australia. By John Gould. LondonPub. by the author, 1865. url p. 150, p. 150.
• Ibis. [London]Published for the British Ornithologists' Union by Academic Press. url p. 409, p. 672.
• Mateship with birds, with an introduction by C. J. Dennis. Melbourne, Whitcombe & Tombs[1922] url p. 196.
• Money in bees in Australasia. A practical treatise on the profitable management of the honey bee in Australasia, London [etc.]Whitcombe and Tombs, limited, [1916] url .
• Nests and eggs of Australian birds, including the geographical distribution of the species and popular observations thereon, by Archibald James Campbell. ... With map, 28 coloured plates and 131 photographic illustrations. Sheffield, Printed for the author by Pawson & Brailsford, 1901. url p. 26, p. 466, p. 565.
• Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania, by Alfred J. North... Sydney: Australian Museum, 1901-1914 url p. 256, p. 257, p. 263.
• Ornithological miscellany / 3 1878 London: Trübner and Co., Bernard Quaritch, R.H. Porter, 1876-1878. url p. 194.
• Postilla. 1968 New Haven, Conn.: Peabody Museum of Natural History, [1950?]-c2004. url p. 35.
• Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. Boston [etc.]Boston Society of Natural History. url p. 270.
• Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. Sydney, Linnean Society of New South Wales. url , , p. 1774, p. 240, p. 329, p. 402, p. 414.
• Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland. [Brisbane, Royal Society of Queensland]1885- url p. 120, p. 26.
• Report of the Australian Association for the advancement of Science. Sidney, The Association. url p. 140, p. 746.
• Some useful Australian birds / Walter W. Froggatt. Sydney: W.A. Gullick, Govt. Printer, 1921. url , p. 34.
• Some useful Australian birds. Sydney, W.A. Gullick, Govt. Printer, 1921. url p. 34.
• The Australian zoologist. Sydney, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales url p. 106, p. 68.
• The Avicultural magazine. Ascot, Berkshire, etc.: Avicultural Society, etc. url p. 257.
• The Emu: official organ of the Australasian Ornithologists' Union. Melbourne: Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union, 1901- url p. 113, p. 116, p. 127, p. 130, p. 135, p. 140, p. 150, p. 173, p. 189, p. 20, p. 207, p. 211, p. 219, p. 24, p. 249, p. 25, p. 27, p. 281, p. 29, p. 30, p. 31, p. 31, p. 41, p. 43, p. 46, p. 5, p. 59, p. 6, p. 76, p. 77, p. 79, p. 88, p. 88, p. 94, p. 96.
• The Hope reports. Oxford: Printed for private circulation, 1897-1958. url p. 859.
• The Victorian naturalist. [Melbourne]Field Naturalists Club of Victoria. url p. 125, p. 14, p. 169, p. 198, p. 24, p. 36, p. 51, p. 62, p. 94.
• The birds of Australia, London [etc.]Whitcombe and Tombs Limited, 1911. url , , , .
• The insectivorous birds of Victoria, with chapters on birds more or less useful, by Robert Hall. .. Melbourne, The Author, 1900. url p. 26, p. 31.
• Transactions and proceedings and report of the Royal Society of South Australia (Incorporated). Adelaide: [The Society] W.C. Rigby, 1904-1911. url p. 251.
• Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia (Incorporated). Adelaide: W.C. Rigby, 1912-1937. url p. 106, p. 18, p. 438.
• Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. Adelaide, Australia: The Society, 1890-1903. url p. 172, p. 22, p. 28.
• Types of birds in the Tring Museum. n. p., 1922? url .

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• BirdLife International 2009. Artamus personatus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 30January2012.
• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 29, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Peterson, Alan P. Zoological Nomenclature Resource. Accessed June 19, 2009.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 29, 2008:

• OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider: Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ): Bird specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 4104
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-558767
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 2480765
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 558767
• IUCN ID: 192774
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 129573

Footnotes

1. Mean = 538.500 meters (1,766.732 feet), Standard Deviation = 725.540 based on 20,198 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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