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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cuckooroller" data-source="post: 950566" data-attributes="member: 1557">Hi Steve,Yes, there is quite a lot wrong with this edition as you have been noticing.The reason that I have wanted to restrict this thread to only annotation of obvious mistakes, or to queries on possible mistakes is so that people may check the thread and not have to wade through a huge volume of sometimes rather esoteric and abstruse argumentations regarding what should have been included as updates.  As you know, with the current upheaval in avian phylogenetics of just the last about five years sometimes the cutting-edge taxonomic changes that might be possible are not always unequivocal and there is room for discussion even among very knowledgeable avian phylogeneticists.  It is certainly not always clear-cut when a race should be split and elevated to specific status.I might suggest that this type of discourse, and there is certainly a need for it, might be relegated to the already established thread - Clements Updates.</blockquote>