Schodde and Mason (1999)
Schodde and Mason (1999) has been adopted by the Australian Bird and Bat
Banding Scheme as their official list, at least as far as passerines are
concerned. Possibly a little premature as I would be surprised if all the
changes will be agreed to. On the other hand, in my opinion, there was a
problem with the ABBBS numbering system in that some subspecies were
recorded as different numbers and other subspecies were ignored. It becomes
a bit subjective.
Unfortunately, when taxonomy gets down to thumbs and tacks, subjective is
what it seems to become.
Cheers,
Mick Todd
Michael Todd
Tropical Savannas CRC
c/o CSIRO
PO Box 780, Atherton, Qld, 4883
Phone- (07) 40918837
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-----Original Message-----
From:
Behalf Of andrew
stafford
Sent: Tuesday, 10 October 2000 9:42 AM
To: Alexandra Appleman
Cc:
Subject: lumps and splits
--- Alexandra Appleman <>
wrote: > Can anyone tell me if the lumps and splits in
the R.
> Schodde &
> I.J.Mason 'The Directory of Australian Birds', is
> now the accepted list?
Alex
No. S & M's work will be reviewed by Christidis and
Boles when the next official Australian bird list is
published (the last was in 1994). S & M's taxonomic
revisions represent proposals, similar to the
situation with albatrosses. Most of these proposed
changes will probably be accepted but there's a good
chance others will not pass muster. Taxonomy is always
a subject of debate in the scientific community.
At least that's my understanding of the situation. Is
there anyone who knows otherwise?
Cheers
AS
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