Dear OBers,
Today is the last day of 2009 in Chinese calendar and tomarrow is a new day,
the beginning of new year. This is Chinese Spring Festival. Herein I wish every
one have a lively life like a tiger, as strong as a tiger, as fast as a tiger.
Welcome to China.
Best birding,
Robin Yuan/Beijing
Director
Beijing Balance Ecotech Development Center
www.chinabirder.com
袁佐平 Robin Yuan
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Subject: [OB] Nightjars
Dear Friends,
I have just finished updatng the genera of Nightjars on my website, in
accordance with the paper by Kin-Lan Han,Robbins & Braun,2010,Molecular
Phylogenetics and Evolution,doi 10.101016/j.ympev.2010.01.023
I haven't updated the nightjars fully. I wanted to finish Columbidae then
I'dd update the nightjars next.
To see the revised analysis you can either click on Caprimulgidae in the
Family List, or you need to search on the following generic names:
Caprimulgus, Chordeiles, Hydropsalis, Nyctiprogne, Lurocalis, Antrostomus,
Phalaenoptilus, Siphonorhis, Gactornis, Nyctiphrynus,Lyncornis,
Eurostopodus.
If you look at earlier accounts such as Ridgway,1916 or Cory, 1918, you will
find almost all these genera were being used. So it looks as if the lumping
most of them into Caprimulgus, and Lyncornis into Eurostopodus were yet
another set of unexplained and unjustified Peters lumps.
Enjoy, it's free.
Dr John Penhallurick
86 Bingley Cres
Fraser A.C.T. 2615
Australia
email:
Phone: Home (612) 62585428
Mobile:0408585426
Please visit my website: http://www.worldbirdinfo.net
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