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Didn't you simply download another file than the one you are used to ? (E.g., the "Master List" instead of the "Life List" ?)- l_raty
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- Forum: Bird Taxonomy and Nomenclature
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Name changed in Aug 2009, which means IOC had used it for a grand 3 years in total (Gill & Wright 2006 was published in Aug 2006, fide Amazon), before dropping it, citing : Gregory, P.A. 2009. Birds of New Guinea and its offshore islands; a checklist. Sicklebill Publications No.2, Kuranda...- l_raty
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Ramsay wrote it Mackinlay in the OD; IOC writes it MacKinlay, it now appears it should have been McKinlay. The question is, are such variations susceptible to create "confusion" to the extent that they would now justify a decision to butcher a name (which is in prevailing use) entirely...- l_raty
- Post #2,555
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Interesting that "confusion" did not stop someone from finding his dates... (Or could this type of spelling variation not be of a nature making it susceptible to induce that much confusion after all ? When asked for one variant, Google has no problems returning instances of the other.) Death...- l_raty
- Post #2,553
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"Chestnut-throated Partridge" and "Buff-throated Partridge" were apparently inventions of Sibley & Monroe in the 1990's. Or, at least, I have not been able to trace any use of these names in the older literature for a Tetraophasis sp. (As I have already written above, "Chestnut-throated...- l_raty
- Post #2,517
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This is a very strange argument. Already tried to argue with a cop that you were speeding "to align your speed with that of the three other drivers" present on the road, so that all the blame should be directed to them rather than you? Did it work? "To align with other major world bird lists" on...- l_raty
- Post #2,498
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It's presented as an alignment "with other major world bird lists." (Hopefully IOC don't start aligning "with Clements" alone, just for the sake of it, because, with Clements set to adopt the AOS common names, doing this would arguably fully justify the "knee-jerk reaction equivocating this with...- l_raty
- Post #2,466
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The pronunciation of c is quite versatile, which makes it a difficult letter in foreign words -- depending on the language (and, in some language, on the letter that follows it), it can be similar to (at least) the English sounds k, s, ch, j (as in Turkish), or ts (Slavic languages). Westerners...- l_raty
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My first questionment was about the c, actually.- l_raty
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Would be interesting to know which proportion of English-speakers pronounce "Kecil" the way it ought to be ?- l_raty
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That would be much too easy. ;) The banded-pittas are three species in the genus Hydrornis, which includes ten more species that are pittas without being banded-pittas, and which is only one out of three currently recognized genera of pittas...- l_raty
- Post #2,356
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OD : v. 1-2 (1848-1849) - Contributions to ornithology for 1848-1853 - Biodiversity Heritage Library Strickland had received the specimen labelled "poliogenys", but changed this deliberately to poliogenis. (I'm not sure I follow his explanation as to why he did this, though.) A spelling in...- l_raty
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As I have written elsewhere before, BirdLife pulled this trigger many years ago. The "Taxonomic notes" file associated to the last version of the checklist (were the species is called "Redpoll", without any modifier), says - If the WGAC are to address all the conflicts between the main...- l_raty
- Post #2,307
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Salter et al 2019 Extensive paraphyly in the typical owl family (Strigidae) Edit - https://www.worldbirdnames.org/new/updates/taxonomy/ "Formerly in Pyrroglaux, but that genus is embedded in Otus (Salter et al. 2019). Note gender agreement."- l_raty
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You can, of course, but with a drawback -- namely that the sequence in your list will then be affected by which taxonomic levels you decide to recognize. The sequence of species in a list in which (e.g.) genera are ordered alphabetically within families, is not at all the same as in a list with...- l_raty
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Well, if this creates what is essentially a new combination so far as the modern literature is concerned, the action is definitely disruptive, and definitely irreversible. (There are no 'risks' at play in this.)- l_raty
- Post #2,269
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Jha et al 2021 recovered this species as the sister group of a clade made of Hemixos, Hypsipetes and Ixos. (To be frank, this looks like a wholly unnecessarily disruptive move to me. The species was described in Ixos in 1836, but had not been placed in this genus for ages. Up to now, searching...- l_raty
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= core Gallinago ?- l_raty
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When a printed journal goes online-only, its print ISSN remains associated to the volumes that were printed in the past -- the fact that a journal has a print ISSN is no evidence that it is still printed. This journal is only available online and in print on demand (not publication in the sense...- l_raty
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Techno babble regarding the above moved here at the request of the OP.- l_raty
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Two references have been cited as introducing this name - Richardson in : Wilson A, Bonaparte CL. 1831. American ornithology; or the natural history of the birds of the United States. Edited by Robert Jameson. In four volumes. Vol. IV. Constable and Co, Edinburgh; Hurst, Chance and Co, London...- l_raty
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Of course, it would have to go to Thinornis if the latter was recognized as distinct.- l_raty
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Most definitely. For some (hard to figure) reason, Elseyornis melanops was left out of the analyses of Dos Remedios et al. 2015 (which is the only reference associated directly to the transfer of the two Thinornis spp to Charadrius). Elseyornis melanops was found embedded in the clade now...- l_raty
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"Eudromius morinellus" "Move Eurasian Dotterel from Charadrius to the monotypic genus Eudromius based on phylogentic analyses (dos Remedios et al. 2015; Černaý & Natale 2022)." This should be Eudromias, not 'Eudromius'. (I assume the change is not complete yet.)- l_raty
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Well, Esperanto is as well a 中国人听不懂的[...]西方帝国主义语... ;)- l_raty
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