It is a formality of moving from being in the same family to being in the
same genus. As all taxa are really expressions of opinion as to where the
dividing line lies, it is not such a big change. Even casually, the
similarity is suggestive.
Philip
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Sent: Thursday, 27 June 2013 2:49 PM To: John Penhallurick; Birding-Aus
Subject: Australian Magpie
Hi John,
Interesting, though this was surely this has been on the cards for a while
before this study. It was already listed as Cracticus tibicen by Christidis
& Boles 2008, though I note IOC currently still has it in Gymnorhina (see
http://www.worldbirdnames.org/n-batises.html). Not too surprising given
quite a few similarities in morphology and voice. Ron Johnstone from the WA
museum also mentioned that there are records of Pied Butcherbirds
hybridising with Australian Magpie in central Aus.
Cheers,
John
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> How many people are aware that the Australian Magpie has been
> transferred from Gymnorhina to Cracticus, as a result of Kearns, A.M.,
> L. Joseph, and L.G. Cook (2013), A multilocus coalescent analysis of
> the speciational history of the Australo-Papuan butcherbirds and their
> allies, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 66, 941-952.
>
> So it's a Butcherbird!
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