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    IOU Working Group on Avian Checklists update

    In an IOU publication Flutter they publish an update on the work of the WGAC. Main news is they expect to publish the IOU's Global Checklist of Birds in late 2024. No details on work so far. I had Spring 2025 in a pool on date of publication...
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    Two centuries of ornithological exploration of the Rio Doce basin, southeastern Brazil.

    Two centuries of ornithological exploration of the Rio Doce basin, southeastern Brazil. Part I—A history of the landscape, its explorers, and their collections | Zootaxa . Paper has references to the works of Castelnau,, des Murs, Spix and zu Wied-Neuwied
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    Howard and Moore Checklist G. O. A. T.?

    The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World: framework for species delimitation. https://www.aviansystematics.org/uploads/texteditor/AS_1_N9_PDFA.pdf .
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    Current fuss in North America about eponymous English bird names

    Bird Name etymology is about Understanding, Translating & Decrypting Scientific and Common Bird Names. A recent paper is causing a ruckus and I think it fits here...
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    Bat Falcon scientific name

    I was looking at the 2023 D AOS proposals. Bat Falcon is currently called Falco rubigularis . Latham A General Synopsis of Birds 1781 Orange -breasted Falcon. v.1:pt.1 (1781) - A general synopsis of birds - Biodiversity Heritage Library . Latham Supplement to Gen Syn, Birds 1788...
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    ABA podcast with Peter Pyle

    Peter Pyle ABA checklist person speaks to ABA about issues discussed in taxonomy here. The New Pyle Guide is Here with Peter Pyle . Peter Pyle is working on Birds of the World moult /appearance info for birds. He published an ID guide to North American birds in 2022. Buteo Books...
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    Pipilo socorroensis

    2023-C-8 N&MA Classification Committee p. 605 Treat Pipilo socorroensis as a separate species from Spotted Towhee P. maculatus This proposal mentions the two names P. carmani Lawrence (?) 1871? And P. socorroensis Grayson 1867. While in a fever I wrote a little about this with many links...
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    A new look at an old Australian raptor places “Taphaetus” lacertosus de Vis 1905 in the Old World vultures

    A new look at an old Australian raptor places “Taphaetus” lacertosus de Vis 1905 in the Old World vultures https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5168.1.1
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    Call for re-lumping of "Western Flycatcher" Empidonax difficilis/occidentalis

    In a new paper in North American Birds the author calls for the re-lumping of the "Western Flycatcher". North American Birds: Vol. 73, No. 2 - American Birding Association . All over USA ornithologists are singing We are going to party like its 1973! This is simply the first response to the...
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    Saxicola torquatus sibilla an eponym?

    A wikipedia article on Maria Sibylla Merian quotes from a book that this stonechat name is for the artist and naturalist Merian. Maria Sibylla Merian - Wikipedia . "More than a dozen species of plants and animals are named after Merian" Maria Sibylla Merian: Artist Scientist Adventurer . I have...
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    The source of the common name of Sora.

    As it states on the tin: Bird Etymology, understanding, translating and decrypting scientific and common bird names. I hope this thread is in the right place. On July 16, 2021 in the early view of the Ibis is an article by Robert Driver and Alexander L. Bond entitled Towards redressing...
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    A fake genus name not in the Key

    Psuedoglottis Stejneger I could not find in the Key. Stejneger did not erect the genus very strongly or not at all? https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/Z-ges-Ornith_1_0223-0229.pdf . Footnote 1.
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    Falco horsbrughi

    The Key says: horsbrughi ● Lt.-Col. Boyd Robert Horsbrugh (1871-1916) British Army in Ceylon, Sierra Leone and South Africa, ornithologist, aviculturalist (subsp. Falco ruficollis). ● Charles Bell Horsbrugh (1874-1952) British naturalist at Transvaal Mus., Pretoria, collector in tropical Africa...
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    Black-browed babbler (Malacocincla perspicillata)

    Known only from one specimen collected by Schwaner 1843 and named in MS by Temminck. https://www.xeno-canto.org/forum/topic/39672 possibly refound? OD: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/141467#page/407/mode/1up . I think there is at least one more specimen possibly a juvenile, the bill is...
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    Rhea Daerwinii

    Is Rhea darwinii the most correct name for Darwin’s Rhea? In February 1837 d’Orbigny named Rhea pennata for a small Rhea not in the ornithology part of the voyages but in his travels. (Itinerary) https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/163114#page/79/mode/1up He also used the name in an April...
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    Dr. T. Charlton Henry

    I miss the key. Not sure what it says about Dr. Henry. But Zoonomen has Thomas Charles Henry which is wrong. Dr. T. Charlton Henry 1825 – 1877 Father was a DD from Princeton born in Philadelphia who was a Presbyterian pastor in Charleston South Carolina. Jr. likely born there. Jr. attended...
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    wahingtoniensis, washingtoniana or washingtonii

    wahingtoniensis, washingtoniana or washingtonii which has priority and which is the right species name? I listened to an ABA podcast: https://www.aba.org/j-j-audubon-and-the-bird-of-washington-fraud-with-matthew-halley/ . And the author of the BBOC article uses washingtonii. This is sort of...
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    AOS blog post about Puerto Rico Tody name

    May this year a blog post was published which addressed why the Puerto Rico Today's scientific name was mexicanensis? https://amornithhistory.org/2019/05/01/aves-mexicanus/ My take is Lesson used the word inedit after his brother's name puertoricensis. Google translate that as novel or...
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    AOS citation problem for M. deglandi

    Ornithologie européenne, ou Catalogue analytique et raisonné des oiseux observés en Europe. Degland 1849. Species 484: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/50452#page/484/mode/1up . Selys-Longchamps was a subscriber: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/50448#page/12/mode/1up . 1844...
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    Small change to Lyrurus mlokosiewiczi

    In the KEY it lists the death year of Młokosiewicz as 1901 but wikipedia has 1909. A geneology website Geni has : Ludwik Młokosiewicz Polish: Ludwik Aleksander Młokosiewicz Birthdate: August 25, 1831 Birthplace: Warszawa, Warszawa, Mazowieckie, Poland Death: August 04, 1909 (77) Дагестан...
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    Original description of all species and subspecies of birds

    I do not do mammals . Mr. Jobling is done with 2k+ original diagnosis of the bird genus. Next species. Tinamus tao kleei Crypturus Kleei. C. pileo nigro punotulis albis adsperso; gula albicante; plumis aucheiiii griseis, dorsi ex olivaceo fuscis totis fasciis nigris transverse...
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    Additions to the ABA Check-list

    Four birds added to the ABA check-list. Most interesting to me is the committee is struggling over the common name of the River Warbler. "There is still a question as to whether the bird will be represented on the ABA Checklist as “Eurasian River Warbler” as it is on the Clements list or, as...
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    The etymology of watkinsi

    In the Key watkinsi is described as honoring Henry George "Harry" Watkins. For Grallaria watkinsi . https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/22875#page/292/mode/1up . The Key says that Incaspiza watkinsi is named for Harry's brother Cazimir "Charles" Watkins. It is named for Harry. See page 4...
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    Bannerman's Shearwater

    Bannerman's Shearwater is a species. http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.2326/osj.17.11 .
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    "diagnosis not seen" for genus names in the Key A through S

    Mr. Jobling says there are a few genus names from A through part of T in the Key he has still not seen the diagnosis. One mentioned was Philipinetta, the dignosis was available from a review of the original work. Bjorn rightly stated I had hijacked the Joko Windoo thread. Here is another in...
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