Sooty Owl taxonomy

["Tony Keene" <>]

Looking through the Norman et al. paper, they used only one example from each 
of the three species/subspecies, so it's a very small set to make such a call 
from. On that note, would C&B have a problem with differentiating between 
Pomarine and Great Skuas, despite the distance in mitochondrial DNA being 
smaller than that seen in Sooty Owls (0.44% in the two skuas [1] compared with 
0.4-0.8% in the owls).
 Just putting the cat amongst the pigeons (although I don't know the mtDNA 
distance between those).
 Cheers!

 Tony

 [1] Cohen et al. Proc. Roy. Soc. London. B, 1997, v264, p181-190: 
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1688246/pdf/9061968.pdf