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l_raty replied to the thread Descriptions of all fossil Charadriiformes.I have this as : Cimolopteryx rara (mandatory correction of rarus) Marsh 1892. Marsh OC. 1892. Notes on Mesozoic vertebrate fossils. Am... -
l_raty replied to the thread Nesoptilotis leucotis thomasi (Mathews, 1912) & Poodytes gramineus thomasi (Mathews, 1912).But Mathews used words denoting colour darkness/lightness in a majority of his ssp diagnoses, thus I wouldn't be too fast to exclude a...
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l_raty replied to the thread New information on the Vegavis holotype.For bare figures (no captions - the figs shown on the left on the article page on SD, but larger), you can try...
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l_raty replied to the thread Troglodytes wrens.Troglodytes troglodytes weigoldi v. Jordans 1923 https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32597679 ; type locality Porto, Portugal...
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l_raty replied to the thread Troglodytes wrens.Is it a real new study ? Or some kind of "wide audience" presentation of results from the PLoS paper of last year (link in post #4...
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l_raty replied to the thread Carpodacus thura Bonaparte & Schlegel, 1850.Everywhere I find her as "Thura", it's in the context of the bird name. So it seems that the choice would be between Thura being some...
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l_raty replied to the thread Carpodacus thura Bonaparte & Schlegel, 1850.The name is attributed to "Bp." alone, in a work by Bonaparte & Schlegel : the correct author of the name is Bonaparte alone (in...
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l_raty replied to the thread Hovacrex roberti.A "Robert, Alphonse, préparateur-naturaliste, r. du Rhône, 30" appears in the 1911 member list of the Société Zoologique de Genève...
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l_raty replied to the thread Pluvialis squatarola tomkovichi Engelmoer & Roselaar, 1998.г.р. stands for год рождения, which means year of birth. (So I'm afraid his birth date is already "out there".)
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l_raty replied to the thread Hovacrex roberti.Definitely not a valid OD, but the name is often cited from there. The actual OD, I think, would be this...
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l_raty replied to the thread Perisoreus infaustus tkatchenkoi Sushkin & Stegmann, 1929.Or it might be a confusion between Gregorian and Julian calendars ? Did you get the "Christmas day for the west but not in Russia" from...
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l_raty replied to the thread Descriptions of all fossil Ralliformes.As Porphyrio (?) reperta De Vis 1888. De Vis CW. 1888. A glimpse of the post-Tertiary avifauna of Queensland. Proc. Linn. Soc. New S...
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l_raty replied to the thread Descriptions of all fossil Ralliformes.Sélys-Longchamps E de. 1848. Résumé concernant les oiseaux brévipennes mentionnés dans l'ouvrage de M. Strickland sur le Dodo. Rev...