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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DMW" data-source="post: 3534997" data-attributes="member: 80452">Maybe it's because you have made disparaging comments about him previously on BF?However, perhaps you would like to put me straight by listing the tour leaders you have in mind who have also authored field guides with comprehensively novel taxonomies, and who you think are unqualified to make taxonomic judgements?I bet when you were in Wallacea you had Coates & Bishop, and therefore didn't have much of a clue about how distinctive many of the taxa are that they lumped. It's hard to have an open mind when you don't actually know what to look for. For example, nobody was going to Roti before a number of endemic splits were mooted. The new Indonesia guide splits off the Island Leaf Warbler on Roti, and when you look at it properly, you see that it has a honking great bill and a distinctive jizz. However, without having been forewarned, I'm not sure I would have bothered to look properly.</blockquote>