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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mb1848" data-source="post: 4027359" data-attributes="member: 31036">Björn asked:”Does anyone know the true synonym of "Lophura sumatrana delacouri", equal of which of today's taxon/taxa?It's somewhat tricky to figure it out ... (as hybrids, or clinal forms, etc., etc, have been suggested to be involved).”Delacour himself commented:  “Different Firebacks - Bornean (nobilis), Vieillot's, Crestless - have not laid yet, but I have good acclimatized pairs which ought to breed next season. A very interesting new race, of which a pair has been sent to mc by my friend, Professor A. Ghigi, of Bologna, has been named by him after me, Lophura sumatrana delacouri; it resembles in every way the Bornean bird (L. ignita), but shows the pure white central tail feathers of the Vieillot's (L. rufa)”...here is the skin of the female: <a href="https://science.mnhn.fr/institution/mnhn/collection/zo/item/mo-1927-1790?listIndex=127&listCount=8447" target="_blank">https://science.mnhn.fr/institution/mnhn/collection/zo/item/mo-1927-1790?listIndex=127&listCount=8447</a> .And the male: <a href="https://science.mnhn.fr/institution/mnhn/collection/zo/item/mo-1932-3210?listIndex=128&listCount=8447" target="_blank">https://science.mnhn.fr/institution/mnhn/collection/zo/item/mo-1932-3210?listIndex=128&listCount=8447</a> .In 1949 Delacour mentioned this taxa but I cannot read it.<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1474-919X.1949.tb02262.x" target="_blank">https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1474-919X.1949.tb02262.x</a> .The work Björn mentioned in another thread Collar & Prys-Jones Forktail 2014 Lophura ignita macartneyi revisited says “If the issue of macartneyi and its various other manifestations (sumatrana, delacouri and albipennis) can now be considered resolved—it might be appropriate to refer to these hybrids collectively under the established name ‘macartneyi’, so long as this is in inverted commas to indicate its taxonomic invalidity”.</blockquote>

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