Socotran, Arabian & East African scops owls (1 Viewer)

[Richard Klim]

Pons, Kirwan, Porter & Fuchs (in press). A reappraisal of the systematic affinities of Socotran, Arabian and East African scops owls (Otus, Strigidae) using a combination of molecular, biometric and acoustic data. Ibis. [abstract] [supp info]

Holt et al 1999 (HBW 5):

• Otus senegalensis
• Otus brucei

Socotra Scops Owl Otus socotranus is recognised as a distinct species by König & Weick 2008, Mikkola 2012, Porter & Aspinall 2010, OSME and IOC.
Arabian Scops Owl Otus pamelae is recognised as a distinct species by König & Weick 2008 and Mikkola 2012.

 

[MJB]

Arabian Scops Owl Otus pamelae is recognised as a distinct species by König & Weick 2008 and Mikkola 2012.

Perhaps it's timely to remind Bird Forum members that this taxon was named by Athenaeum Club member Harry Bridger St John Philby in 1937 after the Club librarian, Pamela Lovibond: Jobling 2010 (the Athenaeum emblem is an owl).

Jobling, JA. 2010. The Helm Dictionary of Scientific names, from aalge to zusii. Christopher Helm. London, UK.

All that time in the desert rearranging political boundaries makes old goats do what?:-O
MJB

 

[Richard Klim]

Perhaps it's timely to remind Bird Forum members that this taxon was named by Athenaeum Club member Harry Bridger St John Philby...

Was Philby's Partridge ever served in the Club dining room? :eat:

 

[MJB]

Was Philby's Partridge ever served in the Club dining room? :eat:

No, it wasn't wearing a collar and tie...3
MJB

 

[GMK]

Mike, strictly speaking, pamelae was described by George Latimer Bates, not Philby (though it was Philby who recommended that the bird should be named for Miss Lovibond and who collected the type). Furthermore, Philby’s full name is correctly written, Harry St. John Bridger Philby, per the type description (but Wikipedia has it right too).

 

[MJB]

Mike, strictly speaking, pamelae was described by George Latimer Bates, not Philby (though it was Philby who recommended that the bird should be named for Miss Lovibond and who collected the type). Furthermore, Philby’s full name is correctly written, Harry St. John Bridger Philby, per the type description (but Wikipedia has it right too).

Guy,
Always a pleasure to stand corrected by you! I keep on learning that way. Also congrats on more fine work.
MJB

 

[Richard Klim]

Arabian Scops Owl

John Boyd (TiF):
www.jboyd.net/Taxo/changes.html (9 Jul 2013)
www.jboyd.net/Taxo/List10.html#strigidae

[Recently listed by IOC as a proposed split: www.worldbirdnames.org/updates/proposed-splits/]

 

[Peter Kovalik]

Otus pamelae

IOC Update Diary:
Dec 14 Accept Arabian Scops Owl