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Puzzled over names in Simpson & Day

To: "'Frank O\"Connor'" <>, <>
Subject: Puzzled over names in Simpson & Day
From: "Steve" <>
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 16:08:48 +1000
Frank. There is something wrong here. The IOC lists (which I have downloaded
from worlbirdnames.org) do NOT hyphenate "Black Cockatoo". The Clements list
does, however.
Cheers Steve Murray

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Subject: Puzzled over names in Simpson & Day


Don

I assume that you bought your copy of Simpson & Day overseas?  In 
that case it would probably be an overseas edition and different in 
some ways to the Simpson & Day we would purchase in Australia.  In 
which case they have probably renamed some of the species from the 
RENs that we use in Australia.  I am not certain whether they have 
tried to follow Clements or the IOC.

As others have said, the names you quote are what we use except for 
Glossy Black-Cockatoo.

The IOC gives an explanation of naming conventions on their web 
site.  I think this is worldbirdnames.org but you can find it with 
google anyway.  They are leaving out hyphens in birds such as 
Cuckooshrike, Scrubbird, Fairywren.  i.e. where it is the 
concatenation of two types.  But Black-Cockatoo remains.  The general 
rule is that if the bird is the type of the second word, then the 
second word is capitalised, and then a hyphen is used. i.e. Carnaby's 
Black-Cockatoo is a cockatoo.  Note that Carnaby's Black-Cockatoo is 
the name that has been used by West Australians for a long time, and 
so was adopted in the last Australian list in 2008 (formerly 
Short-billed Black-Cockatoo).  I guess they didn't like Figparrot or 
Kingparrot as single words, and so they used a hyphen and the second 
word is capitalised.

The IOC rules generally make sense, and I suspect that the Australian 
list will eventually adopt many of them.


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