I'm just going to call it a tick.
Tony
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Subject: [Norton AntiSpam] RE: [Birding-Aus] Taxonomy of Melithreptus
honeyeaters
Any suggestions or proposed common name?
Western White-naped Honeyeater seems a bit long.
Whitlock's Honeyeater sounds good, or Western Honeyeater perhaps.
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> Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 21:39:07 +1000
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Taxonomy of Melithreptus honeyeaters
>
> For anyone interested in such things, a paper has just been published
which advocates splitting the White naped Honeyeater into two - the South
West WA form becoming Melithreptus whitlocki.
>
> This is no particular surprise; Christidis and Boles flagged the
possibility and the latest Slater field guide has it as a separate species
already. The paper advocates that treatment on the basis that genetically
the two forms currently in White naped are in fact each more closely related
to Black headed Honeyeater than they are to each other. While I have not
read the entire paper, I don't think it says anything that would
particularly support splitting Golden backed from Black chinned.
>
> The citation of the paper is Toon, Hughes & Joseph 2010. Multilocus
analysis of honeyeaters (Aves: Meliphagidae) highlights spatio-temporal
heterogeneity in the influence of biogeographic barriers in the Australian
monsoonal zone. Mol Ecol: in press. The abstract can be found at
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/123571854/abstract
>
> It also makes reference to an in press paper supporting the splitting of
the Western Ground Parrot.
>
> Murray Lord
> Sydney
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