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Most recent species?

To: Lawrie Conole <>
Subject: Most recent species?
From: Andy Burton <>
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 10:05:16 +1100

I think that Hall's Babbler was described in 1964.

Andy




Reid wrote:

Can anyone tell me which is the most recently discovered/described (as
opposed to a species being created by splitting) of Australian birds?  What
species, when and by whom?


I believe this would be the Eungella Honeyeater
(/Lichenostomus hindwoodi/), described in 1983
by Wayne Longmore and Walter Boles (/Emu /83(2):
59).
Prior to that probably the Grey Grasswren
/Amytornis barbatus/, discovered in 1967, and
described by Alan McEvey and Norman Favaloro?

Also, along this line, how many Australian species were discovered/described
in each of the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries?

Pass.

And lastly, what is the source/sources to find out such information?

A useful review is published each decade by
various combinations of François Vuilleumier,
Mary LeCroy (American Museum of Natural History)
and Ernst Mayr (Museum of Comparative Zoology,
Harvard University), which lists and critiques
all new descriptions.  The last one I have
access to was published in 1992 for the decade
1981-90, in the /Bulletin of the British
Ornithologists' Club/, 112A.

L.

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