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Howard and Moore 4th edition - Passerines (1 Viewer)

Richard Klim said:
Phylloscopus (sindianus) lorenzii – Mountain Chiffchaff [Stepanyan 1990. P sindianus (ex-Mountain Chiffchaff) renamed Kashmir Chiffchaff]
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I know I have seen Stepanyan's name cited as supporting a split of lorenzii in more than one place.
But from what I understand of both his Надвиды и виды-двойники в авифауне СССР (1983) and his Конспект орнитологической фауны СССР (1990), his point never seems to have been that lorenzii was "worth being split from sindianus". His point was that lorenzii was "worth being split from Ph. collybita", due to the situation in the Caucasian contact zones with (what he called) abietinus. He barely cited sindianus at all in his discussions of the taxonomy of lorenzii, and always retained it as a race within Ph. collybita...
What are the arguments to split sindianus from lorenzii exactly?
(The extremely limited genetic data that have been published [cytb, 1 sequence for sindianus, 2 sequences for lorenzii, but from the same specimen] make them sister, with a distance rather equivalent to that separating collybita from tristis.)
 
Phylloscopus (sindianus) lorenzii

l_raty said:
What are the arguments to split sindianus from lorenzii exactly?
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Sangster et al 1999 (CSNA) adopted a split (under the diagnosability version of PSC)...
Common Chiffchaff, Mountain Chiffchaff P. sindianus and Caucasian Mountain Chiffchaff P. lorenzii are specifically distinct (Martens 1982; Snow & Perrins 1998) based on differences in structure and plumage (Shirihai 1987; Cramp 1992), qualitative differences in vocalisations (Martens & Hänel 1981; Martens 1982) and genetic analyses (Helbig et al. 1996).
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Rhadina

Bilberg, 1828
Hab. gener. fere Phyllopneustae, sed corpore graciliore, et fronte adhuc depressiore -- N. gen. e ῥαδινος, gracilis, derivatum.
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(Appearance generally quite that of Phyllopneusta, but with a more slender body, and a still lower forehead -- New genus, derived from ῥαδινος, slender.)

Originally included species: Motacilla sibilatrix Bechstein; Motacilla acredula Linnaeus; Sylvia rufa Latham (in other words: Wood Warbler, Willow Warbler and Chiffchaff). No original type species fixation.
According to Mayr & Cottrell, 1986, type species fixed by subsequent designation by Stuart Baker, 1930, as M. sibilatrix Bechstein.

Nutcracker, you should blame Stuart Baker ;)
 
White-tailed Leaf Warbler complex

Following Olsson et al 2005, Phylloscopus davisoni sl has generally been split into Davison's Leaf Warbler P davisoni ss (monotypic) and Kloss's Leaf Warbler P ogilviegranti (all other sspp) – eg, Rheindt 2006 (Splits galore: the revolution in Asian leaf warbler systematics), Martens 2010 (Review of Phylloscopus and Seicercus), IOC, eBird/Clements.

H&M4 instead recognises Kloss's Leaf Warbler Seicercus ogilviegranti (monotypic) and White-tailed/Davison's Leaf Warbler S klossi (all other sspp), citing Olsson et al 2005 and Päckert et al 2009.
[With the placement of the complex in Seicercus, muleyitensis nom nov Dickinson & Christidis, 2014 replaces davisoni which is preoccupied by Cryptolopha davisoni Sharpe, 1888, leaving klossi to take priority as the specific name.]
 
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Dusky Warbler complex

Following Rasmussen & Anderton 2005/2012, tibetanus is treated as a ssp of Dusky Warbler Phylloscopus fuscatus rather than of Smoky Warbler P fuligiventer, contra Martens 2010, HBW, IOC, eBird/Clements.

[weigoldi is now treated as a ssp of P fuligiventer, cf Martens 2010, IOC, eBird/Clements.]

PS. The taxa proposed by Red'kin & Malykh 2011 are not currently recognised.
 
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Common names

Richard Klim said:
And, hot on the heels of HBW/BirdLife, the further widespread independent tinkering with common names is very disheartening. (But I doubt that many will use H&M as a primary source of common names.)
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eg, Salpinctes obsoletus Boulder Wren!! (Rock Wren = obsolete.)

It's hard to imagine that such unnecessary changes to long-established and widely-used common names will be taken seriously. Despite the reasoning given in Appendix 3, in the interests of stability/commonality I would have preferred the use of IOC's names throughout (or that English names were omitted altogether - arguably an unnecessarily divisive distraction in an otherwise authoritative work on systematics and nomenclature).

PS. Xenicus gilviventris = Alpine/New Zealand Rockwren.
 
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H&M4_vol2

Duplicate taxa and homonyms:

p. 89 Myrmelastes saturatus obscurus (Zimmer & Phelps, 1946)
p. 90 Myrmelastes leucostigma obscurus (Zimmer & Phelps, 1946)

p. 419 Tangara nigroviridis berlepschi (Taczanowski, 1884)
p. 422 Tangara episcopus berlepschi (Dalmas, 1900)

p. 420 Tangara parzudakii urubambae J.T. Zimmer, 1943
p. 422 Tangara episcopus urubambae (J.T. Zimmer, 1944)

p. 421 Tangara mexicana boliviana (Bonaparte, 1851)
p. 422 Tangara sayaca boliviana (J. Bond & Meyer de Schauensee, 1941)
 
Synonyms of H&M4 genera

Kurochkinegramma Kashin, 1978 (hypogrammicum) /H&M4/ = Hypogramma Reichenbach, 1853 (hypogrammicum) /IOC4.4, HBW, BL7/

Lepidopygia Reichenbach, 1862 (nana) /H&M4, HBW/ = Lemuresthes Wolters, 1949 (nana) /IOC4.4, TiF2.98/

Arundinax Blyth, 1845 (aedon) /H&M4/ = Phragamaticola Jerdon, 1845 (aedon) /TiF2.98/

Erythrogenys E.C.S. Baker, 1930 (hypoleucos, erythrogenys, erythrocnemis) /H&M4/ = Megapomatorhinus Moyle, Andersen, Oliveros, Steinheimer & Reddy, 2012 /Clements6.9, TiF2.98/

Laniellus Swainson, 1832 (langbianis, albonotatus) /H&M4/ = Crocias Temminck, 1836 (langbianis, albonotatus) /IOC4.4, Clements6.9, HBW, TiF2.98, BL7/

Chamaetylas Heine, 1860 (poliophrys, poliocephala, fuelleborni, choloensis) /H&M4/ = Pseudalethe Beresford, 2003 (poliophrys, poliocephala, fuelleborni, choloensis) /IOC4.4, Clements6.9, HBW, TiF2.98/
 
Species

H&M4 vol2 species not recognized by IOC4.4:
Code: 
Akialoa lanaiensis
Akialoa stejnegeri
Amytornis oweni
Amytornis rowleyi
Amytornis whitei
Anthus longicaudatus
Anthus pseudosimilis
Bradypterus centralis
Corvus compilator
Corvus philippinus
Crithagra striatipectus
Curruca inornata
Dicaeum malaitae
Drymodes beccarii
Edolisoma admiralitatis
Eumyias stresemanni
Falcunculus leucogaster
Falcunculus whitei
Formicivora littoralis
Formicivora paludicola
Hemignathus affinis
Hemignathus hanapepe
Horornis canturians
Laniarius holomelas
Lanius borealis
Lanius giganteus
Loxops ochraceus
Loxops wolstenholmei
Melanodryas westralensis
Monarcha ugiensis
Ortygospiza fuscocrissa
Ortygospiza gabonensis
Parus bokharensis
Passer yatii
Petroica longipes
Phylloscopus lorenzii
Scytalopus notorius
Seicercus klossi
Symposiachrus malaitae
Terpsiphone affinis
Terpsiphone incei
Tityra leucura
Turdus mandarinus
Turdus niveiceps
Zosterops rendovae

H&M4 vol2 species not recognized by Clements 6.9:
Code: 
Akialoa lanaiensis
Akialoa stejnegeri
Alaudala cheleensis
Alethe castanea
Amytornis modestus
Amytornis oweni
Amytornis rowleyi
Amytornis whitei
Anthus australis
Anthus longicaudatus
Anthus pseudosimilis
Aphelocoma woodhouseii
Arizelocichla fusciceps
Batis erlangeri
Bradypterus centralis
Calamanthus montanellus
Callaeas wilsoni
Cincloramphus macrurus
Cinnyris fuelleborni
Cinnyris usambaricus
Clytorhynchus sanctaecrucis
Corvus compilator
Corvus minutus
Corvus philippinus
Corvus violaceus
Crithagra canicapilla
Crithagra striatipectus
Curruca inornata
Curruca subalpina
Daphoenositta papuensis
Dicaeum malaitae
Drymodes beccarii
Edolisoma remotum
Elaenia olivina
Eumyias stresemanni
Falcunculus leucogaster
Falcunculus whitei
Formicarius moniliger
Formicivora paludicola
Hemignathus affinis
Hemignathus hanapepe
Hemispingus auricularis
Himatione fraithii
Horornis canturians
Laniarius holomelas
Lanius borealis
Lanius giganteus
Lophorina intercedens
Loxops ochraceus
Loxops wolstenholmei
Melanodryas westralensis
Melithreptus chloropsis
Monarcha ugiensis
Oenanthe chrysopygia
Pachyramphus xanthogenys
Parotia helenae
Parus bokharensis
Passer yatii
Passer zarudnyi
Petroica longipes
Philemon plumigenis
Phylloscopus lorenzii
Ptilorrhoa geislerorum
Ptyonoprogne obsoleta
Regulus madeirensis
Rhynchostruthus percivali
Scytalopus notorius
Seicercus klossi
Sericulus ardens
Sitta arctica
Symposiachrus malaitae
Terpsiphone affinis
Terpsiphone incei
Tityra leucura
Turdus mandarinus
Turdus niveiceps
Turnagra tanagra
Zimmerius improbus
Zimmerius petersi
Zoothera aurea
Zoothera major
Zosterops rendovae
 
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Richard Klim said:
Another one...
  • Aegithalos (iouschistos) fuliginosus – Sooty (Black-browed) Tit – lumped [Päckert et al 2010]
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IMO here the authors jumped to the gun a bit too quickly… In the most recent study by Wang et al, which is much more thorough than that of Päckert et al, the two taxa (Sooty and Black-browed Tit) are referred to as different species, with the differences in nuclear DNA being clearly larger than those in mtDNA:
http://www.frontiersinzoology.com/content/11/1/40

For example in the Wolong-Balang area in Sichuan the two taxa seem to occur separated by 25 km at most, apparently without any widespread hybridization between them.
 
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