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Philippine species limits
But Vieillot spoke French, and all Sulidae are "fous" in this language. (Fou = fool, silly, lunatic, insane.) Including the gannets.- l_raty
- Post #65
- Forum: Bird Taxonomy and Nomenclature
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Philippine species limits
The problem is, the limit between what is "plain wrong" and the rest is a quite blurry one. As is noted in the Code, swifts do have legs, thus Apus is (plain?) wrong too. Where do you stop? As they say, "For other uses, see Île-de-France (disambiguation)."- l_raty
- Post #60
- Forum: Bird Taxonomy and Nomenclature
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Philippine species limits
Statius Müller 1776 [OD] cited Buffon and gave "Isle-de-France" as the bird's origin. He presumably based himself on the Planche Enluminée n° 252 [here], where the bird is given as "Guêpier de l'Isle-de-France". (The earliest actual description by Buffon that I seemingly can find ([here]) is...- l_raty
- Post #56
- Forum: Bird Taxonomy and Nomenclature
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Philippine species limits
You can download it from Kevin Winker's website. BTW: Brown et al. 2013 can be obtained here. L -- l_raty
- Post #27
- Forum: Bird Taxonomy and Nomenclature