Speckled Warbler scientific name

[John Penhallurick <>]

Hi Colin and birding-aus,
The change comes from Schodde and Mason,1999,The Directory of Australian
Birds:Passerines,p.158:
They stated:"Hitherto the two species of Pyrrholaemus Gould have either been
combined in Sericornis Gould...or split generically,in Pyrrholaemus and
Chthonicola Gould...we have combined them because (i)we find no significant
difference between them in structure and (ii) Christidis(1990) found them
linked karyologically and in proteins..."
See also the introduction to the Family Acanthizidae on pages 132-34.
John