>I personally think that Sibley & Monroe is the best to date and prefer to
>use that. Don't forget that S & M supported the traditional
>classification 80%.
>
>John Penhallurick
>
One of the best reasons to use Sibley-Monroe - regardless of what you think
of its taxonomy - is that (in its full form) it gives far more details than
any other recent list on various splits, lumps and other changes. I have
found this extremely useful in sorting out (for example) the corresponding
modern allocation of various African birds I saw in 1966 and identified
using Mackworth-Praed and Grant (who had their own ideas about taxonomy).
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