While having an internet trawl to see how widely Cracticus tibicen is used, I
came across the Italian common name for Australian Magpie on Avibase. It is
Gazza australiana. How Australian can you get. Perhaps we should campaign for
it to become the scientific name.
Carl Clifford
On 27/02/2013, at 23:17, "Cas Liber" <> wrote:
> Hi all, recent genetic work on butcherbirds showed interesting results -
> essentially Black Butcherbird (with a deep split between NG and Aus BBB's)
> and Aust Magpie are sister taxa having split after their ancestors diverged
> from other butcherbirds...and Silver-backed/Grey/Black-backed is
> polyphyletic/mushed.....
>
> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23219707
>
> Apparently Anna Kearns has another paper coming on making sense of the
> Silver-backed/Grey/Black-backed butcherbird phylogeny..
> Cas
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