HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v5 (1 Viewer)

[Peter Kovalik]

• HBW-BirdLife Version 5.0 (December 2020) – current version, with subspecies

 

[mb1848]

Thank you Peter. "We welcome input to the taxonomic work undertaken, and anyone can propose taxonomic issues or provide new information for consideration by the BirdLife Taxonomic Working Group by posting a message on the taxonomic change proposals section of the BirdLife Globally Threatened Bird Forum" The California stay at home orders look less onerous now.
https://globally-threatened-bird-fo...ened-bird-forums/taxonomic-change-suggestions . I notice that Zoonomen does not list an author and year for the subfamily Striginae. Possibly Kaup in Jardine 1852 but I did see it in 1849 Archiv fur N. discussion of Kaup Isis von Oken 1848 .
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Archiv_für_Naturgeschichte/CWFoTGNynTAC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq="Striginae"&pg=PA55&printsec=frontcover . Page 55. But I do not see the name in the Isis but I see he splits Bubo and Strix.
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47602#page/419/mode/1up .

 

[Jim LeNomenclatoriste]

• HBW-BirdLife Version 5.0 (December 2020) – current version, with subspecies

What is the difference with the old version?

 

[Peter Kovalik]

What is the difference with the old version?

Family level:
Eutrichomyias rowleyi - moved from Monarchidae to Lamproliidae
Chaetorhynchus papuensis, Lamprolia klinesmithi, Lamprolia victoriae - moved from Rhipiduridae to Lamproliidae

Genus level:
Arachnothera hypogrammica / Kurochkinegramma hypogrammica
Atlantisia podarces / Laterallus podarces
Atlantisia rogersi / Laterallus rogersi
Gorsachius magnificus / Oroanassa magnifica
Hapalocrex flaviventer / Laterallus flaviventer
Heteroglaux blewitti / Athene blewitti
Hylocharis cyanus / Amazilia cyanus
Hylocharis eliciae / Amazilia eliciae
Hylocharis chrysura / Amazilia chrysura
Chrysuronia oenone / Amazilia oenone
Juliamyia julie / Amazilia julie
Lepidopyga coeruleogularis / Amazilia coeruleogularis
Lepidopyga goudoti / Amazilia goudoti
Lepidopyga lilliae / Amazilia lilliae
Porzana spiloptera / Laterallus spilopterus
Psittacula calthrapae / Nicopsitta calthrapae
Psittacula columboides / Nicopsitta columboides
Psittacula cyanocephala / Himalayapsitta cyanocephala
Psittacula eques / Alexandrinus eques
Psittacula eupatria / Palaeornis eupatria
Psittacula exsul / Alexandrinus exsul
Psittacula finschii / Himalayapsitta finschii
Psittacula himalayana / Himalayapsitta himalayana
Psittacula krameri / Alexandrinus krameri
Psittacula longicauda / Belocercus longicaudus
Psittacula roseata / Himalayapsitta roseata
Psittacula wardi / Palaeornis wardi
Psitteuteles iris / Trichoglossus iris

Species added:
Anas carolinensis
Aplonis circumscripta
Ardea occidentalis
Buccanodon dowsetti
Cercococcyx lemaireae
Dicaeum dayakorum
Chaetura andrei
Lophorina feminina
Lophorina minor
Milvus aegyptius
Tanygnathus everetti

All subspecies added, but also some of them are listed twice:
Amazilia amazilia alticola
Amazilia versicolor rondoniae
Caprimulgus poliocephalus ruwenzorii

Some curiosities and discrepancies:
Species Pachyptila salvini and Pachyptila macgillivrayi should be monotypic, but P. salvini incl. two subspecies P. s. salvini and P. s. macgillivrayi
Heliobletus contaminatus incl. 3 sspp and also: Heliobletus contaminatus newname and Heliobletus contaminatus ssp.
Lophorina feminina (taxonomy and priority): incl. 2 sspp: Lophorina feminina feminina Ogilvie-Grant, 1915 and Lophorina feminina latipennis Rothschild, 1907.
But by IOCv8.2: The species group epithet superba has been traditionally associated with the Lophorina of the Vogelkop Peninsula. However, the type specimen is lost and its taxonomic identity may be controversial. For this reason a neotype has been recently chosen to fix application of superba Pennant to the population of Lophorina that Daubenton’s plate 632 in his Planches Enluminées (1765–1781) most closely and most likely depicts: the western cordillera form. With this neotypification, superba Pennant, 1781 replaces feminina Ogilvie-Grant, 1915 which becomes a synonym. Use of Pennant, 1781 rather than Forster, 1781 for the author of superba follows the authors of the neotypicificaton. See Irestedt et al 2017.

 

[l_raty]

What is the correct taxonomy of the genus Lophorina ?

As they say in the "Taxonomic Notes" file:

An attempt to alter the nomenclature of this complex (Irestedt et al. 2017) has been countered by Elliott et al. (2020) [...]

Elliott et al 2020: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339163365

IOC did not deal with this yet. (Although there is a reference to the paper on their website, added after the text quoted by Peter : "However, Elliott et al. (2020) argue that this neotypification is neither required nor justified and, as such, this revised nomenclature of the Lophorina complex should be rejected in favour of traditional usage." The current situation is a bit of a pity, I think -- the longer we remain with the same name used for two different species by two of the main "authorities", the worse the confusion will be.)

The attribution of the name superba to Pennant [in Forster] 1781 is unquestionably correct.

• title page of Forster's Indische Zoologie : https://books.google.com/books?id=tqZRIIvzJrYC&printsec=frontcover
• start of the Specimen Faunulae Indicae therein, "autore Thoma Pennant Armigero R[egalis] S[ocietatis] S[ocio]" (= "by author Thomas Pennant Esq. Member of the Royal Society") : https://books.google.com/books?id=tqZRIIvzJrYC&pg=PT4
• "Paradisea Superba Pl. Enl. 632.", in Pennant's Specimen Faunulae Indicae : https://books.google.com/books?id=tqZRIIvzJrYC&pg=PT5

 

[sicklebill]

As they say in the "Taxonomic Notes" file:

Elliott et al 2020: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339163365

IOC did not deal with this yet. (Although there is a reference to the paper on their website, added after the text quoted by Peter : "However, Elliott et al. (2020) argue that this neotypification is neither required nor justified and, as such, this revised nomenclature of the Lophorina complex should be rejected in favour of traditional usage." The current situation is a bit of a pity, I think -- the longer we remain with the same name used for two different species by two of the main "authorities", the worse the confusion will be.)

The attribution of the name superba to Pennant [in Forster] 1781 is unquestionably correct.

• title page of Forster's Indische Zoologie : https://books.google.com/books?id=tqZRIIvzJrYC&printsec=frontcover
• start of the Specimen Faunulae Indicae therein, "autore Thoma Pennant Armigero R[egalis] S[ocietatis] S[ocio]" (= "by author Thomas Pennant Esq. Member of the Royal Society") : https://books.google.com/books?id=tqZRIIvzJrYC&pg=PT4
• "Paradisea Superba Pl. Enl. 632.", in Pennant's Specimen Faunulae Indicae : https://books.google.com/books?id=tqZRIIvzJrYC&pg=PT5

I had to deal with this in my Birds of Paradise and Bowerbirds book, and after due discussion decided to retain the more traditional nomenclature
TAXONOMY AND GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION
Irestedt et al. (2017) note that ‘in considering the nomenclatural impact of a shift in application of superba Pennant, we submit, given the splitting of species advocated here, that transferring superba to the most widespread and familiar segregate species serves stability better than keeping it for a localised endemic in the Vogelkop’. This treatment remains subject to some debate, is not yet nalised, and is not adopted here. Following the split of Lophorina into three species, this species has two races:
1. L. l. latipennis (Rothschild, 1907). Synonyms L. s. connectens Mayr, 1930, and L. s. addenda Iredale, 1948. Mountains of the central cordillera of West Papua from the Weyland Range east to at least the Victor Emanuel and Hindenburg Ranges; eastern limits not yet known. Distinguished by the broad superciliary stripe, which extends across the nape to the other eye, female smaller in all measurements. Males have black central dots in the feathers of the stiffened iridescent blue breast shield (Diamond 1972). The female plumage again parallels the female of a parotia, the species this time being Carola’s Parotia, having a brown crown, olive back, rufous wing feathers, similarly coloured underparts and a prominent pale superciliary stripe.
2. L. l. feminina Ogilvie-Grant, 1915, Ibis Jubilee Supplement 2, 27. Utakwa R, Nassau Range. The central and eastern highlands of PNG, eastwards to the Herzog and Kuper Ranges and perhaps the Ekuti Range, where it presumably meets with L. (s.) minor. Found also on the Huon Peninsula and possibly in the Adelbert Range. Head of female dark brown with a broad whitish superciliary stripe, and white streaking on the forehead, crown and nape; chin and throat whitish. Smaller and lighter than the nominate form, both sexes slightly larger than L. minor. Males have black central dots in the feathers of the stiffened iridescent blue breast shield (Diamond 1972).
I have been in touch with IOC about it, and also proposed using Western, Superb and Eastern Lophorina for the split rather than the not particularly helpful new vernacular names of Curl-caped and Lesser Lophorina; I particularly wanted to keep a link with the very long established Superb designation, we shall see how all this unfolds.

 

[Paul Clapham]

What is the difference with the old version?

And in the English names department:

• Names including "Hottentot" changed (Spotted Teal, Fynbos Buttonquail)
• Kaffa White-eye renamed Kafa White-eye
• Northern Brown Kiwi renamed North Island Brown Kiwi
• Snares Snipe renamed Snares Island Snipe
• Cerulean Paradise-flycatcher renamed Cerulean Flycatcher (due to its move from Monarchidae to new family Lamproliidae)
• Purple-naped Spiderhunter renamed Purple-naped Sunbird (moved from genus Arachnothera)
• McCown's Longspur renamed Thick-billed Longspur

 

[Jim LeNomenclatoriste]

And in the English names department:

• Cerulean Paradise-flycatcher renamed Cerulean Flycatcher (due to its move from Monarchidae to new family Lamproliidae

As I said above, the French name of this species is actually "Tchitrec de Rowley". But, the real Tchitrec are genera Terpsiphone and Hypothymis. Thus, I change its name to Pseudotchitrec de Rowley, Pseudotchitrec meaning "False Tchitrec"

 

[Nutcracker]

And in the English names department:

• Names including "Hottentot" changed (Spotted Teal, Fynbos Buttonquail)
• Kaffa White-eye renamed Kafa White-eye
• Northern Brown Kiwi renamed North Island Brown Kiwi
• Snares Snipe renamed Snares Island Snipe
• Cerulean Paradise-flycatcher renamed Cerulean Flycatcher (due to its move from Monarchidae to new family Lamproliidae)
• Purple-naped Spiderhunter renamed Purple-naped Sunbird (moved from genus Arachnothera)
• McCown's Longspur renamed Thick-billed Longspur

Good to see hot & tot go - it's offensive to some communities in southern Africa.

But (as it is an Asian species), shouldn't that be Caerulean Flycatcher?