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G'day all,
I suspect BA have made a typing error with
Cuckoo-Shrike.
I feel much more comfortable using the Australian
Museum "Australian Bird List"
I quote its introduction:
It is based on 'The Taxonomy and Species of
Birds of Australia and its Territories' by Leslie Christidis and Walter E. Boles
(1994. Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union Monograph 2).
To it have been added any new species for which
records have been accepted by the Records Appraisal Committee of Birds
Australia.
It omits records of vagrant species not yet
accepted, ship-assisted species, introduced species that were established but
are now extirpated and species cited in the literature that are now not
accepted.
No attempt has been made to incorporate
taxonomic revisions subsequent to Christidis and Boles; that list is currently
being revised and any changes will be reflected here when it is published.
All species without a superscript have been
recorded from the mainland, Tasmania or surrounding waters, either breeding or
as regular migrants. Species that are mainly reported from, or occur only on,
island territories are marked with the appropriate regional superscript:
And yes it shows Cuckoo-shrike NOT Cuckoo-Shrike in
section 5
Walter Boles is
employed at the Australian Museum.
Regards
Bob Forsyth, Mount Isa, NW
Qld.
ps I also recommend the other sections of the
Museum's Web Page
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