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Newly Described Aus Ringneck - B. z. parkeri

To: Murray Lord <>
Subject: Newly Described Aus Ringneck - B. z. parkeri
From: Laurie Knight <>
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2017 08:48:36 +0000
Thanks Murray.

If anyone wants to have a look at the IOC checklists, go to 
http://www.worldbirdnames.org/ioc-lists/master-list-2/

On 26 Mar 2017, at 5:43 pm, Murray Lord <> wrote:

> Laurie,
>
> It was described in Emu 116(4) last year.  All Birdlife Australia members now 
> get free access to Emu online – which I think BLA deserves big credit for – 
> the paper can be found at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1071/MU16005
>
> Short answer to your question is that they are found in the far NE of South 
> Australia and just across into Queensland, and the paper quotes an earlier 
> author who described these birds by saying “these birds appeared to be 
> lighter, more yellowish than birds from the Murray Mallee districts, which 
> appear sea green; they had pale heads with a red frontal band similar to the 
> southern birds”.
>
> Murray
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