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    Clements 6.8 and Latin grammar

    I admit that it has been more than 50 years since I studied Latin - and Ms. Murphy would tell you that I was not her best student - however I am puzzled by the comment on Row 23821 of Clements 6.8. "With the transfer of Chestnut-winged Babbler from the genus Stachyris to Cyanoderma, the...
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    IOC World Bird List: format

    Like others, I download the file and import it to a database. I recognize that my desires are different from those who use it differently - but that is why you have the checklist format. Although I have yet to see a format that stumps me, I am looking for data that is easy to parse. Having...
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    Scleroptila levaillantoides

    Thanks! That does a little better - it seems to use tabs to honour some of the columns - but is still loses the Excel column and row formatting. I know how to do a table in native HTML, but not in a forum. Did you just insert my text into the "Code" bookends, or did you do a paste from Excel?
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    Scleroptila levaillantoides

    As you suggested, I went back and queried for equal years. There are more, but many are by the same author(s), and potentially in the same publication - reducing the amount of work required to validate the priority. Once again, I apologize for the formatting. Is it possible to insert a table...
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    Scleroptila levaillantoides

    I took a look at IOC. The first group is for nominate subspecies where the author and year differ from the full species. In the second group, the listed ssp was (allegedly) described before the species/nominate ssp. Unless I missed the point... And the formatting is bad Genus Species sp...
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    Scleroptila levaillantoides

    Richard, I am not sure I understand. For those lists with authors and dates, it would be possible to compare the subspecies dates. However, that still would leave the cases where priority was ignored in the past and the incorrect subspecies was synonymised with no trace. Or where the...
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    Map of subspecies

    One of the things that has spent several years on my When-I-get-time To-Do list is the creation of a set of national/regional checklists at the subspecies level - recognizing that in some cases we just don't know. I hope you have more time than I do.
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    AOU-NACC Proposals 2011

    With respect to bullet 3 I located Supplement 49 and the subsequent supplements and determined that two of the changes from that supplement still have not been correctly implemented in the three AOU lists posted on Dec 22nd - either the full HTML list, the CSV list or the Excel list. As I...
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    AOU-NACC Proposals 2011

    It now appears that the lists containing subspecies are no longer available - unless there is some other hidden link.
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    AOU-NACC Proposals 2011

    I am trying to determine if the AOU list is now correct and stable. When I compare it to my hand updated list There are still a couple differences in linear sequence. The first is in Larinae, where I show a diifferent sequence of genera, starting with Creagus and Rissa and ending with Larus...
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    Pipridae

    I know that I sometimes get distracted and forget to write a note. I just sent your post to him in case that had happened to you.
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    Pipridae

    I sent a note to Van - just received the response And a follow-up message that it is complete.
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    Clements/eBird 2012 update

    just received
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    Taxonomic changes to the British List

    Maybe not a rodent, but I do have a couple Mephitidae on my "Smelled only" list.
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    Dorst's Cisticola

    Guy - your wish has been granted. In the latest IOC draft 3.2 (posted a couple days ago as I recall), it has Seq Previous IOC List English Name Updated List (v3.2) Code Reference 147 Cisticola dorsti Dorst’s Cisticola Cisticola guinea TAX C. dorsti is a junior synonym of C. guinea...
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    Leptoptilos lüi

    And in support of Niels' observation, when I later tried to see the abstract without making any changes, refreshing, etc - it worked. Apparently timing - or nationality - is everything.
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    Leptoptilos lüi

    When I try to bring up the Auk article, it kindly tells me that no abstract is available. I don't know if I need a Bluffer's Guide to the Code - or simply to have Google Translate operate on the Code. On second thought, after seeing some Google translations this morning I think that maybe...
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    AOU-NACC Proposals 2011

    I was a little confused by 2011-C-14, because it refers to 2011-C-10 in the past tense. It appears we may have a window into the voting on at least one 2011 proposal before the supplement is published.
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    Ptilinopus mercierii

    I believe it relates to the second doctor (surgeon) on the ship La Reine Blanche (White Queen). From the Lonely Planet website on Tahiti and Polynesia Googling la Reine Blanche will get you a lot of information about the Catherine Deneuve movie and the restaurant in Paris
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    Possible new species of Oliveback

    I interpreted it as a statement that over time, behaviours that were once considered acceptable are now considered reprehensible (and vice versa). Mores, the norms of a society, do change.
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    Clements 2011

    August 2011 updates now posted at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist
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    eBird

    They have been busy - and it is good to see that the "group" concept has been extended to many Old World species. As they say in the notes - Let them know about others that should be included. Love the splits - although I am really interested only in the scientific accuracy. Armchair ticks -...
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    eBird

    No apologies needed. I thought that it was released while I was sleeping, and I could not find it.
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    eBird

    Unless I messed it, Clements 6.6 is not posted yet. Did I miss something?
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    Clements 2011

    Just in from Tom Schulenberg
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