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    BOW Key

    The Key (see #265): The keen-eyed reader will note that this list of new generic names and adjustments mirrors flirtations with Cat. Birds British Museum, vols. XX, XXIV, XXV, and XXVII, and some regional works also. —Actiturus, Aex, Agelastus, Aia, Androglossa, Aprosmictus, Apternyx...
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    Grallaria bangsi

    From The Key (under Manuscript-names); “ The literature of ornithology is littered with manuscript or unpublished names, generally identified in texts by the combinations MS / ms (singular) or MSS / mss (plural), but sometimes quoted verbatim without icon or explanation. Frequently appearing on...
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    Audubonia Bonaparte, 1855 and others

    Thanks for introducing this thread, Martin. Emberiza auduboni is a MS name for Spiza townsendi, an extinct probable hybrid. Anas auduboni Bonaparte, 1838, is interesting, because of its link to the Bimaculated or Bemaculated Duck, another hybrid of questionable parentage (?Anas platyrhynchos x...
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    Aquila fasciata renschi (Stresemann, 1932)

    For The Key I have followed the Deutsche Biographie entry (see #1).
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    Hirundinidae

    Purely on geographical grounds Cecropis striolata could be split into Cecropis striolata (Schlegel, 1844) (monotypic; Taiwan, Philippines, Sundas) and Cecropis vernayi (Kinnear, 1924) (incl. mayri and stanfordi; ne India and Myanmar/Burma to Thailand, s China and Indochina).
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    Hirundinidae

    Del Hoyo and Collar, 2016, Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World, 2, Passerines, p. 452, give potential splits of Cecropis daurica as follows: Cecropis rufula (Temminck, 1835) Western Red-rumped Swallow (monotypic) Cecropis daurica (Laxmann, 1769) Asian Red-rumped Swallow (incl...
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    Pittidae

    Laurent, I spy a conundrum re Selby’s fixation: Turdus cyanurus Boddaert, 1783 = Turdus guajanus Statius Müller, 1776, i.e. Pitta guajana, which is currently placed in Hydrornis Blyth, 1843 (new name for Paludicola Hodgson, 1837; type Paludicola nipalensis Hodgson, 1837, i.e. Hydrornis...
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    Ichthyaetus audouinii (Payraudeau, 1826)

    Don't forget the English birdwatchers' version is always hyphenated, i.e. Ord-Wynne's Gull (compare with Moose-ears Redstart of historic fame!)
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    BOW Key

    Good point re eremiae, Björn I have not seen the OD of Mesopicos goertae eremiae Stoneham, 1926 (Ibis not yet available on BHL, and I got rid of all my old copies during a projected house-move!) Can anybody out there help?
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    BOW Key

    soumagnei For the purposes of The Key any subsequent spelling of a specific name is a variant (although it is a close-run thing here!)
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    BOW Key

    The Key (see #253); This list celebrates my full recovery from obsessive Giebelitis, having just reached p. 824 of vol. III of Giebel’s, Thesaurus Ornithologiae ( 1872-1877). Seemingly full of valuable information, I was astounded by the number of typos and other errors in that work, and hope...
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    Trochilidae

    I was able to access the link to Williamson et al. 2024 also (see Bird Name Etymology, BOW #264)
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    Small on baeri

    "I am just curious why the key is not updated" Old age creeping on (time, memory, stiff fingers, etc.); when I turned 80 I gave up rushing about like a blue-tailed fly!
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    BOW Key

    The Key, today's new specific entry: chaski “Our migration-tracking, genomic, physiological, and morphological analyses reveal that the northern, high-elevation resident giant hummingbird populations comprise a new species, which we describe here: Patagona chaski sp. nov. Northern Giant...
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    BOW Key

    Erikjan Congratulations on completing your nomenclathon! A worthy task and much appreciated. I have been away (on a Billy Fury & Beatles-fest), and succumbed to Giebelitis upon my return (so some of your findings I had already foreseen). A few of the names are new (duly acknowledged) and...
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