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Recent content by Rick Wright

  1. Rick Wright

    Musselburgh Lagoons new scrape and hides finished

    Many thanks, David.
  2. Rick Wright

    Musselburgh Lagoons new scrape and hides finished

    If anyone is still reading this 'thread,' would you happen to know whether it is possible to take a taxi back from Musselburgh to central Edinburgh? Thanks—
  3. Rick Wright

    Technical: what happened to Museum of the Philadelphia Academy

    ANSP.org https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/148176
  4. Rick Wright

    Emberiza cirlus portucaliae

    With a plate, too, facing the title page.
  5. Rick Wright

    101 Curious Tales of East African Birds

    Look forward to it!
  6. Rick Wright

    Spelling query

    https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/101092#page/384/mode/1up
  7. Rick Wright

    Molt/age references

    And most of the Peterson Reference Guide titles are regularly available for pennies on the dollar at Hamilton.
  8. Rick Wright

    Molt/age references

    That is indeed a useful and important reference, but note that Howell has changed his mind and his terminology in some matters since then. I reviewed the book somewhere, but can't quickly find where. The introduction to the new edition of Peter Pyle's ID Guide is probably the most thoughtful...
  9. Rick Wright

    What happened to genus Tantalus?

    Tantalus was also used for Aramus at some point.
  10. Rick Wright

    What happened to genus Tantalus?

    See https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/auk/v025n01/p0037-p0038.pdf
  11. Rick Wright

    Aristotle and Titmice

    Aristotle's αίγί'&αλος was translated as parus by Gaza. If I remember right, Aristotle's descriptions cover both the great and the blue tits. On αίγί'&αλος: A glossary of Greek birds - Biodiversity Heritage Library
  12. Rick Wright

    the Godlewski bunting(s)

    Southern populations split at the species level: A new bunting species in South China revealed by an integrative taxonomic investigation of the Emberiza godlewskii complex (Aves, Emberidae)
  13. Rick Wright

    Galliformes - Gallidae

    As I understand it, and I don't have time to check my understanding against the Code, family names are formed on the name of the type genus, and are thus entirely independent of the name of the order to which the family belongs.
  14. Rick Wright

    Urinatoridae

    Bock treats the name on page 164 in the AMNH Bulletin 22, on line at the library of the American Museum.
  15. Rick Wright

    Alcedo Linnaeus, 1758 or 1789?

    Just one quick example: British zoology - Biodiversity Heritage Library . See also Reichenow's subtype A here: ser.3:Jahrg.19=no.109-114 (1871) - Journal für Ornithologie - Biodiversity Heritage Library
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