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A comment on the details of the Sarus Cranes, as
below: The reference to the naming of the Australian sub-species of the Sarus Crane, is: Schodde, R. (1988) 'New subspecies of
Australian Birds', Canberra Bird Notes 13(4): 119-122 (This was
actually issued on 28-2-1989 and the page number is not CBN 13,1 as
listed in Krajewski & Wood, Emu 95: 99-105, as
cited below). The holotype is ANWC 38355. The sub-species was named
Grus antigone gillae in honour of Mrs. H.B. Gill, who in 1969 first
reported the species in Australia and who prepared the holotype.
Given the peculiar circumstances in which this article
appeared in CBN, I can say that the fact that this bird was included
among the twelve newly described sub-species, was a major part of the reason why
the article was accepted into Canberra Bird Notes by the editor at the time (me). Even with the controversy that
preceded and followed publication of that article, nearly 14 years later I have
never doubted that I did the right thing.
Philip
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Andrew Taylor <>
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Date:
Wednesday, 23 October 2002 19:11
Subject: Re: [BIRDING-AUS] The
Big Twitch- Cape Crusades, The Sequel
On
Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 05:43:30PM +1000, Sean Dooley
wrote:
> On a small cleared area nearby a pair
of
> Sarus Cranes- another relative newcomer to the
Australian list- were
> strutting their stuff giving
me a good look at the fine differences
> that
separate them from Brolga.
I first read this as Sean saying Sarus
Cranes were recent arrivals to
Australia leading me to chase up some refs
I'd remembered seeing.
DNA data suggests they've been in Australia
since the late Pleistocene
(10000+ years), longer than previously
thought.
Similar data suggests that Brolgas reached Australia
~2000000 years ago
and that the closest relative of Brolgas might be the
White-naped Crane,
not the Sarus despite their similarity.
But the
presence of Sarus Cranes in Australia was only recognized in
the last 50
years - no doubt what Sean meant.
The refs are appended (I only could
get the abstract of the first).
Andrew
Wood TC. Krajewski
C. MITOCHONDRIAL DNA SEQUENCE VARIATION AMONG THE
SUBSPECIES OF SARUS
CRANE (GRUS ANTIGONE). [Article] Auk. 113(3):655-663,
1996
Jul.
Krajewski C. Wood TC. MITOCHONDRIAL DNA RELATIONSHIPS WITHIN THE
SARUS
CRANE SPECIES GROUP (GRUIFORMES, GRUIDAE). [Article] Emu.
95(Part
2):99-105, 1995 Jun.
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