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Subject: | Re: Bird Listing Areas |
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From: | John Penhallurick <> |
Date: | Mon, 11 Sep 1995 10:01:38 +1000 (EST) |
Tony, Thanks for your comments. As you point out, what authority to use is a tricky issue. The RAOU Checklist does not recognise some splits that are accepted in Sibley and also Clements. So if you have one authority for some lists and a different authority for other lists, you are going to have inconsistent totals. We can't use the RAOU Checklist for the World List. The simplest solution would be to follow the American Birding Association ans use Clements. Personally, I would prefer to use Sibley's latest checklist. Clements is not a professional ornithologist. He borrowed his Family sequence from Gill and his genera and species sequence with very few exceptions from Sibley & Monroe(1990), and I can't give a lot of credibility to Clements. John Penhallurick ==================================================================== |
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