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Two new additions pending

To: Steve Clark <>
Subject: Two new additions pending
From: John Tongue <>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 14:01:37 +1000
I cannot even find anyone PROPOSING to split the Scrubwrens, let alone “…the 
newly SPLIT Spotted Scrubwren…”

John Tongue
Devonport


> On 25 Apr 2018, at 1:40 PM, Steve Clark <> wrote:
> 
> If the newly split Spotted Scrubwren includes ssp. mellori then I saw one in 
> cleared dune country along Limestone Coast Road, Cape Jaffa, Kingston in Nov 
> 2015.
> 
> Cheers
> Steve Clark
> Hamilton, Vic
> 
> 
>> On 25 Apr 2018, at 10:43, Kev Lobotomi <> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all
>> 
>> 
>> Just letting you know that the Spotted Scrubwren goes way into South 
>> Australia, to the Gulf of St. Vincent, and occurs in habitat around Adelaide 
>> on the coast. It get very close to White-browed here, which occurs in the 
>> hills around Adelaide. There is not much separation between the two taxa in 
>> terms of distance. Another good reason for some splitting. Interesting that 
>> the Kangaroo Island bird genetically falls closer to the White-browed 
>> Scrubwren than it does to Spotted.
>> 
>> 
>> Kevin Bartram.
>> 
>> 
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>> 
>> ________________________________
>> From: Birding-Aus <> on behalf of John 
>> Leonard <>
>> Sent: Monday, 23 April 2018 10:15:15 AM
>> To: <>
>> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Two new additions pending
>> 
>> Where is the divide for the Scrubwten? Across the Nullabor?
>> 
>> John Leonard
>> 
>>> On 23 Apr 2018, at 9:19 am, "Stephen Ambrose" <> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Good to see the Spotted Scrubwren could be split from the White-browed
>>> Scrubwren.  As someone who has studied the ecology of both forms, I cannot
>>> understand why they are lumped together as a single species.  Their
>>> environments, habitats, ecologies (physiological and behavioural), sizes and
>>> plumages are so different.
>>> 
>>> Stephen Ambrose
>>> Ryde NSW
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Birding-Aus  On Behalf Of
>>> Phil Gregory
>>> Sent: Sunday, 22 April 2018 2:39 PM
>>> To: 
>>> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Two new additions pending
>>> 
>>> Since I got to Kolkata from Ghana, two new potential additions derived from
>>> splits:
>>> White-bellied Whipbird (Psophodes leucogaster) of South Australia from
>>> Western Whipbird, the old Mallee Whipbird of Schodde & Mason Spotted
>>> Scrubwren (Sericronis maculatus) of primarily Western Australia from
>>> White-browed Scrubwren, long expected.
>>> Even more reason for a trip to South Australia now, I am slipping behind
>>> with my needed species again.
>>> Phil Gregory
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