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Recent content by James Jobling

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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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    BOW Key

    The Key: additional generic edits (see #245) — —Casmarhynchus, Clonorhynchus, Coparus, Ctenorhynchus, —Hapalus, Helinaea, Helortyx, Heteropus, Hiracococcyx, —Laropsis, Leptogrammus, Liopa, Lophocoryphus, —Megapelia, Myiadectes, —Necrolytes, Nematura, —Orotrochilus, —Parisoma, Petrocichla...
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    AOU-NACC Proposals 2024

    Humble Wren Campylorhynchus humilis (direct translation of the specific epithet) (cf. Happy Wren Pheugopedius/Thryothorus felix, and I think there is a Joyful Wren somewhere, but I cannot find the reference).
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    Parrots

    Here is a collation of “Pacific Parrots” from Sharpe, 1891, Cat. Birds British Mus., XX: ?Psittacus pacificus, var. γ Gmelin, 1788, Syst. Nat., I, p. 329 = Cyanoramphus zealandicus. Psittacus pacificus Gmelin, 1788, Syst. Nat. I, p. 329, n. 88, with var. β = Cyanoramphus novezelandiae...
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    BOW Key

    Thanks Erikjan, I am treating Ctenorhynchus Agassiz as a new name, and, whilst checking podicips, find that podicipes is also new as a specific name. New also are brabournei and falklandius, with undulatum as a new gender entry. As for calli-, cali-, kali-, kalli……!
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    BOW Key

    Thanks Erikjan, As you remark, mainly typos, but I am treating fulvidus (separated from fulvida by fulvidior) and gradatus (OD seen) as new, and have moved syn. Xiphidiopicus percussus to ruppelii (OD seen).
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    BOW Key

    The Key: yet some more generic additions and editing (see #188). — Alectorophasis, Anuropsis, Bebrornis, Calamocichla, Calamonastes, Centropus, Climacocercus, Coryphaspiza, Corythocichla, Crateroscelis, Dixiphia, Dryonastes, Entomophagus, Euchlorornis, Hydrocichla, Ibiceter, Morphnus, Pampa...
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    BOW Key

    Thanks Erikjan, I am treating moestus and myiotherina as new entries. I cannot find humaythea in my copy.
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    BOW Key

    Thanks Erikjan, I am treating cyaneculus and obscurius as novelties deserving entry. The rest are either errors or gender termination differences.
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    Porphyrio alleni Thomson, 1842

    I took Allen's dates from Concise Dictionary of National Biography, ed. 2, reprinted, 1953, p. 18.
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    "diagnosis not seen" for genus names in the Key A through S

    Effusive thanks, Laurent, for the OD of Rheinardia. Another piece of the jigsaw!
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    BOW Key

    Erikjan, You beat me to it - I was about to reveal that lawrentii is not in my copy. I am treating litorea, guarixa, and gymnopsis as novelties. I think intercapularis is an original spelling, but haven't yet seen the OD (Nordmann in Erman's Reise, Naturhist. Atlas, p. 13, 1835).
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    Montifringilla adamsi Adams, 1859 and others

    I use ‘British Army’ and 'Royal Navy' as catch-alls for any UK citizen, regardless of their birth-place, for the sake of consistency and brevity. There are perhaps a few exceptions for the army of the Hon. East India Company, but I cannot recall them presently.
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    Thraupidae

    The Key has: Chipiu (Thraupidae; syn. Poospiza † Black-and-rufous Warblingfinch P. nigrorufa) “CHIPÍU ... Su voz apelativa dice chipíu, y le dan este nombre por excelencia.” (de Azara, 1802, Apunt. Historia Natural Páxaros Paragüay, I, p. 475, no. CXXXII); “989. Poospiza, Caban. (Chipiu...
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    BOW Key

    Erikjan, An interesting selection, especially as the first two epithets (viride, galotii) together with cyanolaima warrant new entries to The Key. Perhaps one of our aficionados may be able to find out more about Galot.
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