Walter Earl Boles

Walter Earl Boles, Australian ornithologist and palaeontologist.

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Boles, W.E. & Longmore, N.W. 1983. A new subspecies of treecreeper in the Climacteris leucophaea superspecies. Emu 83: 272–275. Reference page.
Longmore, N.W. & Boles, W.E. 1983. Description and systematics of the Eungella Honeyeater, Meliphaga hindwoodi, a new species of honeyeater from central Queensland. Emu 83: 59–65 DOI: 10.1071/MU9830059 Reference page.

Parker, S.A., Boles, W.E. & Longmore, N.W. (1985): The rediscovery and taxonomic relationships of Gerygone igata amalia Meise, 1931. Bull. B. O. C. 105: 118-121. Reference page.

Boles, W.E. 1992. Revision of Dromaius gidju Patterson and Rich, 1987 from Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland, Australia, with a reassessment of its generic position. in Campbell, K.E., Jr. (ed.) Papers in avian paleontology honoring Pierce Brodkorb. Science Series (Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County) 36: 195–208. ResearchGate Reference page.

Boles, W.E. & Longmore, N.W. (1998): The avifauna of the Musselbrook area, Queensland. In: Geography Monograph Series No. 4. Musselbrook Reserve Scientific Study Report. (Eds: Comben, Lyn, Long, Suzanne, Berg, Kathryn) Royal Geographical Society of Queensland, Fortitude Valley, 25-46. Reference page.

Aplin, K.P., Pasveer, J.M. & Boles, W.E. 1999. Late Quaternary vertebrates from the Bird's Head Peninsula, Irian Jaya, Indonesia, including descriptions of two previously unknown marsupial species. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 57: 351–387. Online Reference page.

Boles, W. E. 2001. A new emu (Dromaiinae) from the Late Oligocene Etadunna Formation. Emu 101: 317–321. DOI: 10.1071/MU00052 ResearchGate Reference page.

Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 2008. Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. Canberra: CSIRO Publishing. pp. 187–91. ISBN 978-0-643-06511-6. Book title page Reference page.

Nguyen, J.M.T., Boles, W.E. & Hand, S.J. 2010. New Material of Barawertornis tedfordi, a Dromornithid Bird from the Oligo-Miocene of Australia, and its Phylogenetic Implications. Records of the Australian Museum 62: 45–60. DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.62.2010.1539 Reference page.
Worthy, T.H., Hand, S.J., Nguyen, J.M.T., Tennyson, A.J.D., Worthy, J.P., Scofield, R.P., Boles, W.E. & Archer, M. 2010. Biogeographical and phylogenetic implications of an Early Miocene wren (Aves: Passeriformes: Acanthisittidae) from New Zealand. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(2): 479–498. DOI: 10.1080/02724631003618033 Reference page.

Christidis L., Irestedt, M., Rowe, D., Boles, W.E. Norman, J.A. 2011. Mitochondrial and nuclear DNA phylogenies reveal a complex evolutionary history in the Australasian robins (Passeriformes: Petroicidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 61(3): 726–738. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.08.014 Reference page.

Christidis, L., Irestedt, M., Rowe, D., Boles, W.E. & Norman, J.A. 2012. Circumscription, diagnosis and description of two subfamilies and one genus of Australo-Papuan robins (Aves: Passeriformes: Petroicidae). Zootaxa 3560: 87–88. Preview PDF DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3560.1.6 Reference page.

Schodde, R., Boles, W., Christidis, L., Horton, P., Johnstone, R.E., Joseph, L., Longmore, W. (2013). Case 3630 corcoracidae Mathews, 1927 (Aves) and the spelling melanorhamphos Vieillot, 1817 for the valid name of the type species of its type genus: proposed conservation of usage. The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 70 (4): 238–244. DOI: 10.21805/bzn.v70i4.a8 Reference page.
Christidis L., Rheindt, F.E., Boles, W.E. & Norman, J.A. 2013. A re-appraisal of species diversity within the Australian grasswrens Amytornis (Aves: Maluridae). Australian Zoologist 36: 429–437. DOI: 10.7882/AZ.2013.004 ResearchGate Reference page.