C&B is surely the current standard for names in Aus. They agree with King-Parrot, have Glossy Black-Cockatoo, agree with Carnaby’s, Fig-Parrot and Red-tailed. In other words S&D seem to have Glossy wrong but the rest right
On 13 December 2010 12:40, Donald G. Kimball
> I purchased a copy of Simpson & Day to take to Aus in 2008 (I already had > Pizzey) but on returning and working on my parrot DVD series these days I > have noticed that Simpson & Day differ greatly from Foreshaw (for example) > on the spelling of many species. > Here are a few I found in Simpson & Day. > Australian King-Parrot > Glossy-black Cockatoo > Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo > Double-eyed Fig-Parrot > Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo > etc. > > The biggest difference seemed to be that the authors used hypens in places > that Foreshaw did not. Can anyone tell me what the story is here? Did > Simpson & Day just have fun with hypens or are there more than one way of > properly spelling these species? > > Thanks as always for this great site and resource > > Don Kimball > www.polytelismedia.wordpress.com > =============================== > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, > send the message: > unsubscribe > (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) > to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au > > http://birding-aus.org > =============================== > ===============================
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