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  1. l_raty

    The Vanishing Mew Gull

    You may also recall that, although 5 NACC members voted in favour of the split, the vote to revive the name "Hudsonian Curlew" was unanimously negative... Again, nobody here is suggesting that bringing such forgotten and confusing names back into use should be mandatory. The only thing that I...
  2. l_raty

    The Vanishing Mew Gull

    I think it was apt too. A small website that can conveniently be used to answer this type of question is this : Ornithology -- AOU Menu It records the names used in each of the main editions of the AOU check-list (although not the changes introduced in individual supplements). The species was...
  3. l_raty

    The Vanishing Mew Gull

    The whole point in having English names determined by a committee is that these names thereby become "enshrined" on the checklist, which turns them into stable anchors that will allow to retrieve the information scattered in the published record, now and in the future. If what you want is...
  4. l_raty

    The Vanishing Mew Gull

    No. The issue here is not one of sensu stricto vs. sensu lato at all. The issue is to distinguish between Mew Gull (sensu stricto), pre-split, which is a species that breeds in Eurasia only and occurs in North America only as a vagrant, and the completely distinct taxon that some would like to...
  5. l_raty

    The Vanishing Mew Gull

    Using Mew Gull for the combined species was because this was the name of the nominate form; this is probably not what would be done nowadays, but has been a very widely accepted practice in the past, and cannot in any way be seen as having established a precedent. I can see nothing inconsistent...
  6. l_raty

    The Vanishing Mew Gull

    Prior to the original lump, the AOU was using "Short-billed Gull" for brachyrhynchus and "Mew Gull" for canus. The link is to a BHL scan of the 3rd ed of the AOU check-list -- if it keeps not loading, the AOU treatment in 1910 was : ...Then the two forms were lumped and "Mew Gull" -- a name...
  7. l_raty

    The Vanishing Mew Gull

    Preview : The Vanishing Mew Gull ("I had always felt that the previous imposition of Mew Gull as the world name had not been a wise decision : it was, after all, the name of the American subspecies"... Even not taking into account its etymological origin -- of course, no, it never was...
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