Like many of you I have been perusing the Species lists section of this
long-awaited tome.
Not being literate in the conventions of scientific literature, and having
failed to find any explanation in either the "Introduction"or "Species lists"
section of the book, I am puzzled as to why the second column of the species
lists(untitled, but ?obviously author and date of type specimen?) contains
unbracketed and bracketed names and dates. For example on page 38 one finds:
Hirundo noexena Gould,1842 Welcome Swallow
Petrochelidon ariel (Gould,1842) Fairy Martin
There must be a reason for bracketing (which at a guess is the case in more
than 60% of listed species) but I can't find,or even begin to comprehend, what
that reason is.
I await enlightenment.
Russ Lamb,Maleny,SEQ
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