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  1. Parulini

    AOU-NACC proposals 2014

    The current list on the AOU website, with 54th Supplement included, in fact DOES have subspecies in the html page coding. Their display, however, is suppressed. If you save a copy of the page file to your computer, you can use a text editor to add a single line just above the </style> tag...
  2. Parulini

    AOU-NACC proposals 2013

    In addition to the Chicago and Cape Cod (2013) reports, a bird photographed at Renews, Newfoundland, Canada, on 30 June 2013 may also pertain to this taxon. photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/89939334@N04/9187246046/in/pool-ebird photos...
  3. Parulini

    Sibley Guide, 2nd edition

    And let's hope this time SOMEone will be at the printers to check the reds on the first proofs. I cringe every time the current book flops open to the Brown Thrasher.
  4. Parulini

    AOU vs ABA established non native birds

    Thanks for the reference; and sorry I misunderstood the species in question. Which prompts me to ask, Is there any validity in the subspecies epithet Gallus gallus domesticus? It's often bandied about in non-technical writing. Mike
  5. Parulini

    AOU vs ABA established non native birds

    Cacatua galerita Sulphur‑crested Cockatoo? My notes suggest not established. But my notes are a bit dated.
  6. Parulini

    Galloanserae

    Thanks. John Wells's dictionary gives all of five variants, British and American, none of them mine. I think I'll stick with it nonetheless. æ puh TOE sis It preserves the morpheme boundary and phonotactics.
  7. Parulini

    Galloanserae

    Aviporn. Who'd a-thunk it. Anent the abstract, anyone care to weigh in with a pronunciation of "apoptosis"? A while back I conducted an informal survey among American physicians. I couldn't get a single one to use my pronunciation. All supplied "ah-POP-tuh-sis".
  8. Parulini

    AOU-NACC proposals 2013

    I've been told that it's an Indo-European relict: humans who have not reached sexual maturity have no sex and get a neuter gender noun. Russian still uses a neuter noun for infant: дитя (ditya).
  9. Parulini

    Chickadees/Tits

    A 2011 AOU proposal to split Mountain Chickadee failed to pass. http://www.aou.org/committees/nacc/proposals/2010_A_votes_web.php#2010-A-3
  10. Parulini

    field guide for Mongolia and Russia

    V. E. Flint. A Field Guide to the Birds of the USSR. Translated from the original Russian (and well done). Paperback from Amazon. Would complement the Brazil guide, despite its age (1984). Many larger libraries are likely to have a copy. Mike
  11. Parulini

    IOC World Bird List: format

    Oddly, displays just fine on my cellphone with Documents to Go! Was quite pleased. I wonder if the leading spaces for subspecies (to indent) will cause anyone problems. If so, I suppose one could save it as a .csv file and do a global search-and-replace to weed them out. Alternatively, the...
  12. Parulini

    World checklists: cross refererence

    Invaluable ... ... in so many ways. Congratulations, Peter! And thanks.
  13. Parulini

    How should I spend $150 at Amazon?

    Please post a link to your website!
  14. Parulini

    How should I spend $150 at Amazon?

    Splendid! I have those. All very worthy.
  15. Parulini

    How should I spend $150 at Amazon?

    Field Guide to Hawks of North America. Clark & Wheeler. 2nd ed. 2001. Houghton Mifflin. paperback
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    How should I spend $150 at Amazon?

    Birdwatcher's Companion [2nd ed. 2004]. Christopher W. Leahy. Princeton U. Press. paperback Complete Birds of North America. Jonathan Alderfer. 2006. National Geographic. The paperback printing is much easier to use than the hardcover. There is a new guide to warblers due out later this year...
  17. Parulini

    Lesser Kestrel

    http://birdingfrontiers.com/2013/02/12/taxonomical-notes-lesser-kestrel-is-really-monotypic/ Don't be misled by the URL. The topic is actually "IS it monotypic?" Mike
  18. Parulini

    Hybrids documented

    For those wishing to use the .pdf file, photographs of the missing endpapers with the key to abbreviations are posted at http://www.semelfactive.net/birds/HybridsAbbreviations.htm Two large .png graphics files. Crude but fully legible. Mike
  19. Parulini

    Hybrids documented

    Yes, it's the same. I have my print copy right here. I use it all the time. © 2006. [edit] However, it seems to lack the 2-page Abbreviation Key found on the front endpapers of the printed book.
  20. Parulini

    If you could see any bird in 2013, what would it be?

    Cory's Least Bittern Parulini
  21. Parulini

    AOU-NACC Proposals 2011

    The "Show/Hide Subspecies" line is actually a link, though it's not so styled. Click it once and wait 10-15 seconds and the display should toggle. And after all these years, the Red-footed Falcon is still not listed as Accidental! Mike
  22. Parulini

    Clements/eBird 2012 update

    Please forgive an inquiry from (in this arena) one of the great unwashed, but what then are we to do with Acanthis hornemanni (Holböll, 1843) Hoary Redpoll / Arctic Redpoll ? Zoonomen has Carduelis hornemanni (Holboll) 1843 In advance, thank you for your forbearance. Mike
  23. Parulini

    Re-lumping of Common & GW Teal

    Or Hummingbirds! Cross-genus and cross-subfamily. Sample: http://www.semelfactive.net/birds/NAmAves.htm#Trochilidae
  24. Parulini

    Re-lumping of Common & GW Teal

    Reminds me of Dorothy Parker's comment: "It's not normal. It's just common." Mike
  25. Parulini

    Fringillidae

    Try this link to the original artwork (which I found by examining the source code for the web page): http://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S000334721200173X-gr1.jpg Similarly, Figure 2 is at http://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S000334721200173X-gr2.jpg Mike
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