James Jobling
Well-known member
If, like me, you maintain a check-list of the birds of the world based on the published works of your choice and your own preferences, you probably also have to consider new English names when species are split, lumped, or moved to other families (I only use the names published by committees as guidelines, never to be slavishly followed).
In that light I have 'created' the following new names for the Foulehaio honeyeaters (see Meliphagidae # 31, in parent forum); F. carunculatus Fulehau Wattlebird, F. procerior Moustached Wattlebird, F. taviunensis Taveuni Wattlebird.
Elsewhere in this family I use Paradise Wattlebird for Macgregoria pulchra, Spectacled Myza for Myza celebensis, Violet-eared Myza for Myza sarasinorum, White-eared Myza for Myza chionogenys, and the substantives Melipotes, Melidectes, and Myzomela instead of Honeyeater for species in those genera.
Happily, English names are not shackled by rules, so I am sure other readers will have their own opinions and favourites!
In that light I have 'created' the following new names for the Foulehaio honeyeaters (see Meliphagidae # 31, in parent forum); F. carunculatus Fulehau Wattlebird, F. procerior Moustached Wattlebird, F. taviunensis Taveuni Wattlebird.
Elsewhere in this family I use Paradise Wattlebird for Macgregoria pulchra, Spectacled Myza for Myza celebensis, Violet-eared Myza for Myza sarasinorum, White-eared Myza for Myza chionogenys, and the substantives Melipotes, Melidectes, and Myzomela instead of Honeyeater for species in those genera.
Happily, English names are not shackled by rules, so I am sure other readers will have their own opinions and favourites!