Don. Certainly there is more than one way of spelling theses species. The
hyphenation of "Black-cockatoo" and "King-parrot" occurs in the Clements
list but not the IOC list. The Christidis & Bowles names (which are most
commonly used in Australia) are more closely aligned with the IOC names and
don't use the hyphen there. Strangely, "Fig-parrot" does get a hyphen in IOC
and C & B. I don't know what criteria they use.
Rgds Steve Murray
-----Original Message-----
From:
On Behalf Of Donald G. Kimball
Sent: Monday, 13 December 2010 11:40 AM
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Subject: Puzzled over names in Simpson & Day
I purchased a copy of Simpson & Day to take to Aus in 2008 (I already had
Pizzey) but on returning and working on my parrot DVD series these days I
have noticed that Simpson & Day differ greatly from Foreshaw (for example)
on the spelling of many species.
Here are a few I found in Simpson & Day.
Australian King-Parrot
Glossy-black Cockatoo
Carnaby's Black-Cockatoo
Double-eyed Fig-Parrot
Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo
etc.
The biggest difference seemed to be that the authors used hypens in places
that Foreshaw did not. Can anyone tell me what the story is here? Did
Simpson & Day just have fun with hypens or are there more than one way of
properly spelling these species?
Thanks as always for this great site and resource
Don Kimball
www.polytelismedia.wordpress.com
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