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Mt Sonder/ Spinifexbird

To: "'Paul Jacobson'" <>
Subject: Mt Sonder/ Spinifexbird
From: "Tony Russell" <>
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:06:22 +0930
The official trinomial name is "Electrica polus stobiei". Christidis and
Bowles corrupted this to the binomial "concretus polussensis".

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 On Behalf Of Paul Jacobson
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 8:56 AM
To: Amanda Markham
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Subject: Mt Sonder/ Spinifexbird


A "stobie pole" is a South Australian endemic (designed by James  
Stobie of the Adelaide Electricity Supply Company), so South  
Australians are really quite justified in calling their species  
(stobii??) by that name...

cheers
Paul

On 26/04/2007, at 8:37 AM, Amanda Markham wrote:

>
> Agreed, but only if we can convince South Australians to stop
> calling power poles 'Stobie Poles' first!
>
> Mind you, convincing Territorians to change their ways will not be
> easy.... We've just got speed limits and you would swear that for  
> some people, it's the end of life on Earth.
>
>> From: "Greg" <>
>> To: "Amanda Markham" <>, <birding-
>> >
>> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Mt Sonder/ Spinifexbird
>> Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:24:17 +1000
>>
>> A good argument to encourage EVERYONE to accept and use the
>> 'official' Christidis and Boles names.
>>
>> Otherwise confusion reigns!!!
>>
>> Greg Clancy
>>
>>



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