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Re: IOC list questions

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Subject: Re: IOC list questions
From: "Ross Silcock" <>
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:16:13 -0600
I believe Pachycephala pectoralis is used for Australian birds (several 
subspecies, including separate subspecies for both Lord Howe and Norfolk 
birds).  The Fijian species is P. vitiensis, divided into about a dozen 
subspecies on various islands.

Ross

Ross Silcock
P.O. Box 57
Tabor, IA 51653
New Zealand Land and Pelagic Bird Tours
http://www.rosssilcock.com


From: Murray Lord
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 5:17 PM
To: 
Subject: Re: IOC list questions

David,


Re your questions on Fijian taxonomy:



> Streaked Fantail in Fiji - Rhipidura spilodera (according to Dick Watlings 
> book).  Is this now Rhipidura verreauxi ?



Yes.  Verreauxi apparently has priority over spilodera.  See Dickinson, E. C. 
and Watling, D. (2006) The valid specific name of the Streaked Fantail. Bull. 
Brit. Ornithol. Club 126: 59-60.



> Scarlet Robin in Fiji - is this Petroica multicolor or boodang?



It is P. multicolor.  The issue here is whether you accept the split proposed 
by Dick Schodde about ten years ago, of Pacific Robin from Scarlet Robin.  
Pacific Robins are found on Fiji (and Norfolk Island too for that matter).  In 
either case the Fiji birds are P. multicolor.  If you accept the split, the 
name of the Australian Scarlet Robin becomes P. boodang.  (For anyone 
wondering, this would be because the original type specimen to which the name 
P. multicolor was given was a Pacific Robin).



> Golden Whistler - according to Dick Watling this is Pachycephala pectoralis?



Yes I think that’s right.  Lots of different subspecies to work through in Fiji 
though.








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