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    OD of Piranga lutea

    The Tooth-billed Tanager Piranga (hepatica) lutea was described by R. P. Lesson in 1834 in L'Institut 2 (72) as Pithylus luteus, according to Paynter (Check-list Birds World XIII, p.304 (1970)). L'Institut was an unofficial journal that included reports on meetings of the Academie de Sciences...
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    Owls

    The number of ornithologists was relatively small, but from published correspondences it becomes obvious that they often exchanged and/or borrowed specimens among each other, for example to depict rare species or varieties in their books, or to ask for identifications of little-known taxa. The...
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    Alectoris chukar

    Indeed, very interesting and helpful. However, we cannot be sure about the OD of armenica, as the type catalogue gives only information on the 1935 source (which should be Buturlin in Buturlin & Dementiev?), but treats Anser (Melanonyx) serrirostris rossicus from the 1933 book! Note the...
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    Alectoris chukar

    Thank you very much, Mike and Laurent! Dementieff [sic] in his review of the Russian ornithological literature in Alauda 6 (1934: 130-131) provides details of Buturlin's book and cites Alectoris kakelik armenica from this source, on p. 35. Further new taxa described therein are Tetraogallus...
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    Alectoris chukar

    It is often quite difficult to get access to papers published in the former USSR in the decades from the 1920s to the 1960s. Only for the later decades of that period are there ornithological journals, and many papers were published in universal biological or scientific journals or in...
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    Columbiformes

    A work is published when several identical issues are available for free or for purchase! That Bonaparte presented one copy to the Academie is no evidence for publication in the sence of the Code.
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    Gentoo Penguin possible future split into 4 species

    I tried to find the new species Pygoscelis poncetii in ZooBank, but neither was there an entry under that scientific name nor under the ZooBank number given in the paper. Thus, I conclude that the name is not available, whatever the reasons are that led to the failure of registration.
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    Accipitridae

    According to Art. 11.6.1 of the Code (ICZN 1999), if a name published as a younger synonym has been used before 1961, either accepted as an available name for a taxon or treated as an older synonym, it is thereby made available. As Stresemann and von Zedlitz used Gloger's synonym vulpinus for...
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    Picidae

    Is someone able to confirm that the Russian Ornithological Journal publishes a printed version? If it is published online only, the new taxa described are not validly introduced, as they need a ZooBank registration.
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    Lowland antpittas

    Cryptopezus is not the only case, unfortunately, in which new taxa of birds were "described" not in accord with the rules of the Code. There are four cases in 2018 alone, so it seems that the new regulations in connection with electronic only publication are not well known, despite their...
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    AOU-NACC Proposals 2020

    It is not strictly resident as there are hybrids between cirtensis and Iberian buteo in southern Spain. The Strait of Gibraltar is apparently not an obstacle for the North African birds.
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    Names lacking in the Key

    The description of this grebe has been published by M. N. Korelov (1948) in Isvestija Akademii Nauk Kasakhskoi SSR 63, Ser. Zool. 8, pp. 122-127; the new taxon is introduced on p. 124 in the text. The type localities are: Almaty province of south-east Kazakhstan (Karakastek, lower Lipsa River...
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    Turdulus

    Many thanks for your explanations and literature references, Laurent, Björn and Mark. Jerdon (1844) explicitly refers to micropus as a MS name so it remains a nomen nudum, am I right? And the acceptance of Turdus micropus by Gray & Gray (1846 = 1847) does not make that name valid because it is...
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    Turdulus

    Turdulus Gray, 1846 was used for a subgenus of Geokichla by Wolters (Vogelarten d. Erde, Lfg. 6, 1980: 409) with Geokichla wardii (Blyth, 1842) the only included species. Turdulus was introduced by Hodgson (1844) in J. E. Gray's Zool. Misc. 3, p. 83 for O[reocincla]. ? rostrata and O. ...
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    Pheugopedius vs. Sphenura

    Following Steinheimer (2005, Senckenbergiana biologica 85 (2), 1-32), Rüppell's "Neue Wirbelthiere, zur Fauna Abyssinien gehörig, entdeckt und beschrieben..., Vögel", Lfg. 2, pp. 1-16, ls. I-VI (1835); Lfg. 5, 8, pp. 17-48, pls. VII-XVIII (1836); Lfg. 9, 10, pp. 49-80, pls. XIX-XXX (1837)...
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