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  1. Nutcracker

    Turdidae

    Thanks! Time that someone said so officially? Get IOC and others to take up Temminck's position?
  2. Nutcracker

    Turdidae

    So how come Alcedo ispida is just a subspecies of Gracula atthis a taxon first described in a different genus? Shouldn't it be the other way round? Both the same date, of course. (sort of feeling I've asked this before, but can't remember the answer!)
  3. Nutcracker

    Turdidae

    And also Whitethroat ('Greater Pettychaps'), rather than conventional Blackcap, for Sylvia - can't see these getting accepted now as it would upset existing nomenclature too much? What about his Alcedo ispida for Kingfisher, though? That makes much better sense for the type of Alcedo, rather...
  4. Nutcracker

    Turdidae

    Interesting one. I see it retains T. viscivorus as close to basal in the genus (making splitting the genus a nightmare as it is the type species so Turdus s.str. could only contain that species alone!). But the earlier suggestion that T. iliacus was sister to T. migratorius has gone (I was very...
  5. Nutcracker

    Turdidae

    Or just call them all Catharusses - Swainson's Catharus, etc. [no, I'm not being serious 3:-)]
  6. Nutcracker

    Turdidae

    Private message me an email addy and I'll send it :t:
  7. Nutcracker

    Turdidae

    https://sci-hub.tw/10.1016/j.ympev.2019.106564 :t: Still only in draft version.
  8. Nutcracker

    Turdidae

    As an aside - sounds like what a small child would say to their mother after an accident . . . "Mummy, help, panty pooey!" 3:-)
  9. Nutcracker

    Turdidae

    As I read the diagrams (particularly Fig. 4), Hylocichla mustelina is probably sister to a monophyletic Catharus, but with some possibility that C. aurantiirostris and C. mexicanus might be closer to Hylocichla than to the rest of Catharus.
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