Hi Friends, I was hoping that I could cotinue working on my website untilo I was eighty. But bulbar-onset Motor Neurone Disease has put paid to that. It is a horrible disease: in one year it has destroyed all ability to produce intelligilbe speech,and 98% of my swallowing. As you can imagine, this has wrewcked my social life. And noe it has started to affect my limbs. It has started destroying the motor neurones that control my right foot, and I expect the next target wil be my right hand & arm. So Ihave to make some decisions about what to do with my website. Ihave almosy fiished updating the Movements field for the Chsradiidae and Svolpacidae, because movements are very impotant for these groups. I added photos or images and calls for almost all of them. Check it out and let meknow of any species that Ihave mixed. One consequece of my short remaining time (and the MND is extremely variable- I don’t know whether it wil kill me in six months or four years) is that I have decided to abandon the original aim of providing full synnymies for all generic,subgeneric,species and subspecies names. In principle I’lljust give the citations always, plus any synonymd mentioned in Peters.Using sources like Ridgway’s Birds of North and Middle America takes a lot of time, as the synomies are organized by names, not chronology. I will not attach calls where they are relatively uni,portant in indetifying a species eg: the Trochiidae. I’ll keep you posted on progress, and I will have to notiff a change of ISP. My present ISP charges $250 a month, and the website would disapar a mnth after my death. Dr John Penhallurick 86 Bingley Cres Fraser A.C.T. 2615 Australia email:jpenhall@bigpond.net.au Phone: Home (612) 62585428 Mobile:0408585426 sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt Aeneid Book 1,line 462 “The world is a world of tears, and the burdens of mortality touch the heart.” Magna est veritas et praevalet Vulgate, Book of Edras The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at all, or can not so well do, for themselves-in their separate, and individual capacities. Abraham Lincoln “It’s good to look beyond the bounds of accepted ideas” James Peebles,Princeton University Please visit my website: http://www.worldbirdinfo.net
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