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Considered a subspecies of "A. striatus" by both Clements and H&M. It may be just a matter of published data until it is split, but until then we should keep it with Sharp-shinned.
SACC:
I marked the article for "merging" as it is quite full of information.
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Considered a subspecies of "A. striatus" by both Clements and H&M. It may be just a matter of published data until it is split, but until then we should keep it with Sharp-shinned.
SACC:
Accipiter striatus was treated as four species in Sibley & Monroe (1990), Thiollay (1994), and Ridgely & Greenfield (2001): velox of N. America, chionogaster of Middle America, ventralis of the Andes, erythronemius of lowland southern South America); Pinto (1938) and Hellmayr & Conover (1949) considered erythronemius (including ventralis) to be a separate species from A. striatus, and Friedmann (1950) and Stiles & Skutch (1989) considered chionogaster and erythronemius as separate species from A. striatus. [split almost certainly good, but no published data support this split; check Storer (1952). According to HBW account author Rob Bierregaard, through correspondence with Tom Schulenberg, no published data support this split and he was basically forced to comply with species taxonomy given to him.] Ferguson-Lees & Christie (2001) did not follow this split and provided rationale against following it. Proposal needed.
I marked the article for "merging" as it is quite full of information.
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