The description was based on two skins obtained in 1910, supposedly from the Roper River region of the eastern Top End of the Northern Territory of Australia, on an ornithological collecting expedition sponsored by wealthy amateur ornithologist and oologist H. L. White.
The description was based on two skins. These two skins were obtained in 1910, supposedly from the Roper River region of the eastern Top End of the Northern Territory of Australia. This was on an ornithological collecting expedition. This ornithological collecting expedition was sponsored by wealthy amateur ornithologist. This ornithological collecting expedition was sponsored by oologist H. L. White.