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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark Bruce" data-source="post: 1415471" data-attributes="member: 23565">Hi Richard, I presume for referring to the 'under review splits' of gravivox/mcclellandi/swinhoei you would be referring to this <a href="http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/downloads/Under%20review%20species%202008.xls" target="_blank">paper</a> and it would be fair to say that at this point the Black-necklaced isn't listed yet (Spot-breasted Scimitar-babbler <a href="http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=7868&m=0" target="_blank">Pomatorhinus erythrocnemis </a>is listed but without the splits so not in the form of the Taiwan endemic: Black-necklaced Scimitar Babbler Pomatorhinus erythrocnemis). Thanks ! I had a real dig for <a href="http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=32448&m=0" target="_blank">Rusty Laughingthrush </a>and managed to find it listed in the Birdlife database but only after a real struggle. It wasn't coming up on a normal search for some reason. I'm very happy to see it there as it wasn't included on the 2008 Birdlife list of splits and I (international liaison for WBSY in the <a href="http://www.birdlife.org/worldwide/national/taiwan/index.html" target="_blank">CWBF</a>, the Taiwan BirdLife Partner) and to my knowledge my colleagues were not aware that it had been listed on the Birdlife species database list.   Cheers :t:, Mark</blockquote>