Re: IOC list questions

[Murray Lord <>]

David,

Re your questions on Fijian taxonomy:

 

> Streaked Fantail in Fiji - Rhipidura spilodera (according to Dick Watlings book).  Is this now Rhipidura verreauxi ?

 

Yes.  Verreauxi apparently has priority over spilodera.  See Dickinson, E. C. and Watling, D. (2006) The valid specific name of the Streaked Fantail. Bull. Brit. Ornithol. Club 126: 59-60.

 

> Scarlet Robin in Fiji - is this Petroica multicolor or boodang?

 

It is P. multicolor.  The issue here is whether you accept the split proposed by Dick Schodde about ten years ago, of Pacific Robin from Scarlet Robin.  Pacific Robins are found on Fiji (and Norfolk Island too for that matter).  In either case the Fiji birds are P. multicolor.  If you accept the split, the name of the Australian Scarlet Robin becomes P. boodang.  (For anyone wondering, this would be because the original type specimen to which the name P. multicolor was given was a Pacific Robin).

 

> Golden Whistler - according to Dick Watling this is Pachycephala pectoralis?

 

Yes I think that’s right.  Lots of different subspecies to work through in Fiji though.

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