Hi Niven,
Yes, it was to avoid confusion with African Yellow White-eye Z. senegalensis.
To your new questions:
(1) "'African Yellow' and 'Yellow' are not the same": True, but as far as I
remember some African field guides list senegalensis as just 'Yellow
White-eye'. Don't have my books here at work but can check some later.
(2) "why Canary and not Australian Yellow White-eye?" Makes total sense to
me. Some authorities (as reflected in
HBW/IBC: http://ibc.lynxeds.com/species/australian-yellow-white-eye-zosterops-luteus)
indeed call it 'Australian Yellow White-eye'.
Cheers,
Nikolas
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Nikolas Haass
Brisbane, QLD
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From: Niven <>
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Sent: Monday, April 7, 2014 1:08 PM
Subject: Canary White-eye v Yellow White-eye
Hi all
I had a few replies - thanks for those - with the general agreement that
the change was to avoid confusion with African Yellow White-eye. However,
'African Yellow' and 'Yellow' are not the same.
Seems that Australian Golden Whistler may have been adopted on the same
rationale, and this same rationale may well have been led to many other
examples of name changes.
So the next question, why Canary and not Australian Yellow White-eye?
Niven
On 7 April 2014 12:57, Steve Clark <> wrote:
> G'day Niven
>
> I think it was to avoid confusion with the African Yellow White-eye.
>
> Cheers
> Steve Clark
> Hamilton, Vic
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 12:21 PM, Niven <> wrote:
>
>> Hi all
>> Can anyone tell me the rationale behind the change from Yellow White-eye
>> to
>> Canary White-eye in the IOC taxonomy? There doesn't seem to be a Yellow
>> White-eye in the list, so it's not because of a conflict of names.
>> Thanks
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