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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cuckooroller" data-source="post: 947774" data-attributes="member: 1557"><p>Slightly confused on this one.  The Clements 5° Ed. initially listed Nothoprocta kalinowskii as a monotypic good species.  Subsequently, they lumped taxon kalinowskii with Nothoprocta ornata as a good race.  The last that I had heard is that taxon kalinowskii was found to be a junior synonym of Nothoprocta ornata branickii and therefore eliminated.  Now, in the Clements 6° Edition it has mystifyingly reappeared as a good species - Kalinowski's Tinamou (Nothoprocta kalinowskii) monotypic.  I can find nothing corroborating the necessity of exhumation of this corpse.  Am I missing something?</p></blockquote><p></p>