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    The Vanishing Mew Gull

    The Vanishing Mew Gull: A Guide to the Bird Names of the Western Palaearctic (Ray Reedman April 2024) - details here.
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    Gyps africanus

    The correct source and precise date of the name Gyps africanus Salvadori, 1865 (Giorgio Aimassi, Zoological Bibliography 2023 8(6): 93–99)
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    Spelaeornis wren-babblers

    What is the identity of the Spelaeornis wren-babbler that occurs on the slopes of Mugaphi Peak in south-eastern Arunachal Pradesh? (Praveen J, Dipu Karuthedathu, Subramanian Sankar, Hemraj Duraiswami, Yolisa Yobin & Rahul Baruah 7 December 2022, Indian Birds 18 (4): 107–113)
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    Apaloderma camerunense delhoyoi

    Apaloderma camerunense delhoyoi, subsp. nov. (A. S. Kennedy, P. Boesman, N. J. Collar & L. D. C. Fishpool 2022. Geographical variation in the Bar-tailed Trogon Apaloderma vittatum, Bull. B.O.C. 142(4): 509–525):
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    Separately printed copies of the papers published by the Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali and some new dates for Salvadori taxa

    Aimassi, G. 2022, Separately printed copies of the papers published by the Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali and some new dates for Salvadori taxa. Zoological Bibliography 2022 8(4): 59–85.
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    The correct type species of Sylvietta Lafresnaye

    Gregory, S.M.S & R. J. Dowsett 2022, Identifying the correct type species of Sylvietta Lafresnaye, 1839. Avian Systematics 2022 1 (V): N17–N18
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    Separates, preprints, and the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature: issues, problems and recommendations

    After more than a year, a new paper, by Ross Galbreath, in volume 8 of Zoological Bibliography:
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    New e-journal: Avian Systematics

    From the Trust for Avian Systematics. Available online here: Avian Systematics Journal - The Trust for Avian Systematics.
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    New edition of Biographies for Birdwatchers

    A revised and expanded edition of Biographies for Birdwatchers: The Lives of Those Commemorated in Western Palearctic Bird Names by Barbara and Richard Mearns should apparently be available just before Easter. In the thirty years since Biographies for Birdwatchers was published, the Western...
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    Mrs Moreau's Warbler: How Birds Got Their Names

    New book by Stephen Moss about to be published that I don't remember seeing referred to here. Available from Amazon and NHBS. Posting here given subject matter.
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    Pocket Checklist of the Birds of OSME Region

    This 64-page booklet just arrived with the latest issue of Sandgrouse (40(1)). It's dated March 2018 and refers to the "recently published HWPB by Shirihai & Svensson 2018". It is not (yet) mentioned as far as I can see on the OSME website and the latest online version of the OSME Region List is...
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    Gulls Simplified

    Kevin Karlson has recently posted the following on ID Frontiers: Pete Dunne and I are just wrapping up a new book for Princeton Univ Press called Gulls Simplified, where we hope to share a vast visual collection of gull photos that are presented in order of age, with many digital collages of...
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    iohannis

    The HBW Alive Key is admirably up-to-date, given James's replacement name was published only today, but I think there is a typo in the species name, which should read subcoerulea: Prof. Dr. William John Ansorge (1850-1913) British physician in Mauritius, Uganda and Nigeria, zoologist...
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    Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club Volume 137 Number 2

    There are several papers of relevance to this sub-forum in the latest issue of Bull. B.O.C. For more details see http://www.birdforum.net/showpost.php?p=3580629&postcount=2.
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    Ethiopia: New subspecies of African Mourning Dove in Gambella?

    There is a thread just started on the Bird Identification Q&A Forum that should probably be here.
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    Birds of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East: An Annotated Checklist

    I don't recall seeing mention here of this new book by Dominic Mitchell. I just received my copy and my initial reaction is very favourable. It's available direct from the publishers, Lynx (http://www.lynxeds.com/product/birds-europe-north-africa-and-middle-east-1).
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    Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club now online (only)

    The March 2017 issue of Bull. B.O.C. (Volume 137, Number 1) is the first to be published (only) online. Articles can be downloaded as separate PDF files or the entire issue can be downloaded as a single file from http://boc-online.org/bulletin/bulletin-index/bulletin-137. Former members of the...
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