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Canary White-eye v Yellow White-eye

To: Niven <>
Subject: Canary White-eye v Yellow White-eye
From: Martin Butterfield <>
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 13:15:27 +1000
That will be the next change!

Martin

Martin Butterfield
http://franmart.blogspot.com.au/


On 7 April 2014 13:08, Niven <> wrote:

> Hi all
> I had a few replies - thanks for those - with the general agreement that
> the change was to avoid confusion with African Yellow White-eye. However,
> 'African Yellow' and 'Yellow' are not the same.
> Seems that Australian Golden Whistler may have been adopted on the same
> rationale, and this same rationale may well have been led to many other
> examples of name changes.
> So the next question, why Canary and not Australian Yellow White-eye?
>
> Niven
>
>
> On 7 April 2014 12:57, Steve Clark <> wrote:
>
> > G'day Niven
> >
> > I think it was to avoid confusion with the African Yellow White-eye.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Steve Clark
> > Hamilton, Vic
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 12:21 PM, Niven <> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all
> >> Can anyone tell me the rationale behind the change from Yellow White-eye
> >> to
> >> Canary White-eye in the IOC taxonomy? There doesn't seem to be a Yellow
> >> White-eye in the list, so it's not because of a conflict of names.
> >> Thanks
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