Folks;=:
Found the following on the birding-aus' sister mailing list, ukbirdnet and
thought it might be of interest to a few at least.
Julian
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....>Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 10:59:31 BST
>From: Chris Anson <>
>Subject: "Of the Anthus richardi"
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>On looking through my copy of Thomas Bewick's "History of
>British Birds" (6th edition of 1826, rather than first
>edition, unfortunately!) I came across a rather nice comment
>in his section "Of the Anthus richardi":
>"It is probable that it is only one of the numerous
>varieties by which Dame Nature seems to excite or arrest the
>attention of the sometimes overeager ornithologist in his
>fondness for new species..."
>Not much has changed in 171 years!
>It also seems that Bauer and Glutz's suggestion to "split"
>Anthus novaeseelandiae was not as novel as it might have
>seemed; Bewick's taxonomy of Richard's Pipit looks
>remarkably "modern" for 1826!!
>
>Chris
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>
>Chris Anson
>
>School of Chemical Sciences
>University of East Anglia
>Norwich
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Julian Bielewicz
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Queensland Ornithological Society
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