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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richard Klim" data-source="post: 2234976" data-attributes="member: 773">Zuccon 2011Zuccon 2011. Taxonomic notes on some Muscicapidae. Bull BOC 131(3): 196-199.Further to Outlaw & Voelker 2006, Zuccon & Ericson 2010, Sangster et al 2010, Voelker et al 2010, Boyd (<a href="http://www.jboyd.net/Taxo/List26.html#muscicapidae" target="_blank">TiF</a>)...<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">With the transfer of Muscicapella hodgsoni to Ficedula, Slaty-backed Flycatcher F hodgsonii should become F sordida (Godwin-Austen, 1874), not F erithacus (as proposed by Outlaw & Voelker 2006). </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The valid subfamily name of the African forest robins assemblage would be Cossyphinae Vigors, 1825 (as Boyd), not Erithacinae (as proposed by Sangster et al 2010). </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The valid genus name for the clade including Cossypha caffra, C archeri and C anomala would be Caffrornis Roberts, 1922 (as mentioned by Boyd), not Callene (as suggested by Voelker et al 2010) - becoming Caffrornis caffer, C archeri, C anomalus. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The subfamily name 'Niltavinae' (erected by Sangster et al 2010) is a nomen nudum and not available at present.</li> </ul></blockquote>