Re: Betty and Harry Albatross

["Robert Berry" <>]

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> From: John Penhallurick <>
> 
> I nissed the post that Glen refers to.  .
> 
> I see the splits as justified because mtDNA sequencing is at last
providing
> us with reasonably definitive in the area of species limits.  

John, have you seen the mtDNA evidence for splitting the Albatrosses? Or is
the evidence nissing?

> I also feel very strongly that Julian Ford's lumping of the Nullarbor
> Quail-thrush C.alisteri with Cinnnamon Quail-thrush, C.cinnamomeum was
> wrong, as was his uniting of the Western Quail-thrush C.marginatum, with
the
> Chestnut-breasted Quail-thrush, C.castaneothorax of sQld and nNSW.  
> 
> In fact, apart from the computer packages he used, Ford's choice of
criteria
> are similar to those used by Gadow in the nineteenth century!
> 

What software did Gadow use?

Rob.