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Daniel Zimberlin kindly provided information on the here included splits of
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Neumann's Red-winged Starling Onychognathus
neumanni
Alexander 1908
n Nigeria; Central African Republic; w Sudan (nominate); Senegal; Mauretania; Mali;
Niger; Burkina Faso; Ivory Coast; Cameroon (modicus)
split from: Onychognatus morio
insert after: Onychognatus morio
Chris Fear & Adrian Craig,
Starlings and Mynas, Christopher Helm, London, 1998
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White-vented Myna Acridotheres
javanicus
Cabanis 1850
Indonesia: s Sulawesi
split from: Acridotheres cinereus
insert after: Acridotheres grandis
Chris Feare & Adrian Craig,
Starlings and Mynas, Christopher Helm, 1998
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Long-tailed Myna Mino
kreffti
(Sclater) 1869
e Papua New Guinea: Rooke, New Britain, New Ireland and New Hanover
islands of Bismarck Archipelago. Lowland forests
split from: Mino dumontii
insert after: Mino dumontii
Chris Fear & Adrian Craig,
Starlings and Mynas, Christopher Helm, London,
1998
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Indian Hill-Myna Gracula
indica
(Cuvier) 1829
sw India: western Ghats from s Maharashtra s to w Mysore and Kerala; Sri Lanka
split from: Gracula religiosa
insert after: Gracula religiosa
Chris Feare & Adrian Craig,
Starlings and Mynas, Christopher Helm, London, 1998
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Nias Hill-Myna Gracula
robusta
Salvadori 1887
n Indonesia: Nias, Pulan, Babi, Tuangku and Bangkaru Islands off nw Sumatra
split from: Gracula religiosa
insert after: Gracula indica
Chris Fear & Adrian Craig,
Starlings and Mynas, Christopher Helm, London, 1998
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Enggano Hill-Myna Gracula
enganensis
Salvadori 1899
n Indonesia: Enggano Island off s Sumatra
split from: Gracula religiosa
insert after: Gracula robusta
Chris Fear & Adrian Craig,
Starlings and Mynas, Christopher Helm, London, 1998
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Various authors already indicated the apparent appropriateness of
T. palmeri as a taxon separate from
T. curvirostre:
Phillips 1986, Tweit 1996, Zink & Blackwell-Rago 2000. |
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Western Curve-billed
Thrasher Toxostoma palmeri
(Coues) 1872 USA: Arizona; w Mexico: Sonora s to Nayarit and Jalisco split from: Toxostoma curvirostre insert after: Toxostoma curvirostre Octavio R. Rojas-Soto, Geographic variation of the Curve-billed Thrasher (Toxostoma curvirostre) complex The Auk 120, 2 (203): 311-322
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Vizcaino Thrasher Toxostoma
arenicola
Anthony 1897
nw Mexico: c Baja California, Vizcaino Desert
split from: Toxostoma lecontei
insert after: Toxostoma lecontei
Robert M. Zink, Rachelle C. Blackwell and Octavio Rojas-Soto,
Species limits in the Le Conte's Thrasher
The Condor 99, 1 (1997): 132-138
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