Not appearing yet as a proposed split on their website.
> On 18 Jun 2017, at 8:17 PM, Frank O'Connor <> wrote:
>
>
> I notice that the IOC (as of June 9th) is considering the split of
> Purple-backed Fairywren (Malurus assimilis) from Variegated Fairywren
> (Malurus lamberti).
>
> I would assume that 'dulcis' and 'rogersi' and 'bernieri' would be part of
> 'assimilis'?
>
> I am a little surprised. I thought that 'dulcis' and 'rogersi' were the very
> different ones, and I hadn't thought that 'assimilis' was regarded as being
> with them. The females of 'dulcis' and 'rogersi' are quite different.
>
> Apparently this is based on a paper by McLean et al. 2017. I haven't read the
> paper.
>
>
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