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Old Wednesday 24th September 2008, 18:12   #1
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Orange-flanked Bush Robin

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There's two scientific names shown for this species - with no explanatory note in the Taxonomy section

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Old Wednesday 24th September 2008, 19:35   #2
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There's two scientific names shown for this species - with no explanatory note in the Taxonomy section

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I will try to take a look at it later today if time allows.
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Old Wednesday 24th September 2008, 19:39   #3
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Just looked this one up on Avibase.

Sibley and Monroe and Clements go with Tarsiger, so I'd use that.

Howard and Moore use Luscinia cyanura.

None of the authorities listed on Avibase use Erithacus.

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Old Wednesday 24th September 2008, 21:19   #4
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Can't we call it Red-flanked Bluetail ?

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Old Wednesday 24th September 2008, 21:26   #5
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Can't we call it Red-flanked Bluetail ?

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Amen to that! 'Orange-flanked Bush Robin' may be descriptively more precise, but Red-flanked Bluetail is very well established and has a wonderfully evocative history for UK birders,

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Clements, Sibley and Monroe, Gill and Wright, and the AOU agree on the English name (only Howard and Moore preferring the Bush Robin version). I'll move it.
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Old Thursday 25th September 2008, 01:02   #7
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And I did a few more things, such as additional redirects

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Also its been showed to be paraphyletic to Muscicapa and thus it should be tarsiger
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Old Thursday 25th September 2008, 01:12   #9
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Also its been showed to be paraphyletic to Muscicapa and thus it should be tarsiger
Nice to know! our policy in opus is to follow the consensus of recent checklists, which means that even if we are aware of recent litterature, we are not making the changes until the checklists have reviewed the issue.

For my own personal info: do you have a reference on that info?

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off the top of my head no but i read it in a copy of birdwatch probab;y within the last 12 months - will see if i can dig it out.
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