Re[2]: birding-aus Plants and birds

     Greetings Paul,
     
     Your statement that "there must be very few birds in the world with 
     more subspecies than this one; Peters lists no less than 40!" requires 
     a follow up.
     
     The species with the greatest geographical variation of any bird with 
     at least 73 races (subspecies) is the Golden Whistler Pachycephala 
     pectoralis. This species has a distribution of Australia, Lord Howe 
     Island, Norfolk Island, numerous Western Pacific Islands (east to the 
     Loyalty Islands and Fiji) Papua New Guinea, Bismark Archipeligo and 
     westward to Java.
     
     
     Alan leishman
     Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney


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Subject: RE: birding-aus Plants and birds 
Author:  Paul van Gasse <> at mailgate
Date:    20/4/99 22:17


The type species of the (avian) genus Eremophila is the Shore Lark or Horned 
Lark,Eremophila alpestris (there must be very few birds in the world with more 
 subspecies than this one; Peters lists no less than 40!). It usually breeds in 
remote, b ren places, such as tundras, dry plains, or high mountains, in winter 
also occur ng in coastal dunes, salt marshes, and onto farmlands. So I think 
here the 'soli de-loving' meaning would apply.
     
BTW, the second species in the genus, Temminck's Lark, Eremophila bilopha, is a 
ecies of sandy or stony deserts in North Africa and Southwest Asia.
     
Paul Van Gasse
Kruibeke, Belgium

     
     
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From:        Ian Endersby [SMTP: 
Sent:        Tuesday, April 20, 1999 9:16 AM
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Subject:        Re: birding-aus Plants and birds
     
Tim,
     
At least for the plant Eremophila, the meaning is desert loving from the 
Greek eremia  a desert and philo- loving  You can find the roots in Stearn's 
Botanical Latin (thereby also allowing a nice pun).  For the bird there are 
two options: desert loving as above or solitude loving (see Jobling's 
Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names).  My Greek dictionary gives 
(transliterated) ereemos for desert and ereemeea for solitude or wilderness 
so you might have to go to the type description to find out the truth.  I 
don't know where the Larks live - HBW hasn't got up to them yet.
     
regards  (and keep philologising)
     
Ian  
     
     
     
     
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