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Message: <blockquote data-quote="deborah4" data-source="post: 1412670" data-attributes="member: 29880">It wasn't me that jumped all over your posts CAU but the other way round.  Yes nobody had mentioned it (not even Phil in post 4 as you suggested in your bold type reference to cackling cackling ... perhaps if they had, there wouldn't have been any need for clarification of the taxonomic changes way back when ..I don't want to pick a fight either but it did seem you were being rather jumpy when all I was trying to do was clarify the references made on the thread for those who might be reading it etc. and rather defensive when I did. :smoke:Anyway ... life's too short and the taxonomy of the Cackling species rather confusingly and dubiously split to argue over it all.</blockquote>