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Hylacola pyrrhopygia pedleri Schodde & Mason, 1999 & Amytornis merrotsyi pedleri Christidis, Horton & Norman, 2008 (1 Viewer)

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Hylacola pyrrhopygia pedleri Schodde & Mason, 1999 OD Directory of Australian Birds: Passerines CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 1999 (not seen)
Amytornis merrotsyi pedleri Christidis, Horton & Norman, 2008 OD here (not seen)

The Eponym Dictionary of Birds claims:
Chestnut-rumped Heathwren ssp. Calamanthus pyrrhopygius pedleri Schodde & Mason 1999
Short-tailed Grasswren ssp. Amytornis merrotsyi pedleri Christidis, Horton & Norman, 2008
Lynn P. Pedler is an ornithologist and biologist working for the Government of South Australia on Kanagroo Island, combining this with farming on the mainland.

The Key to Scientific Names
Lynn P. Pedler (fl. 2008) Australian ornithologist (subsp. Amytornis merrotsyi, subsp. Hylacola pyrrhopygia).

Here some more on him like got the J. N. Hobbs Memorial Medal (see also here)
 
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Hylacola pyrrhopygia pedleri Schodde & Mason, 1999 OD Directory of Australian Birds: Passerines CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 1999 (not seen)

Description: https://books.google.com/books?id=XXbJoaGF36YC&pg=PT192
Dedication: https://books.google.com/books?id=XXbJoaGF36YC&pg=PT195

(I think this is a preview of an electronic (.epub ?) version of the work, not actual scans of the book.)

Named from Lynn Pedler, discoverer and collector of the Flinders Ranges population.
 
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