I am just reviewing the galley proofs for my forthcoming Field Guide to the Birds of New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago for Lynx Edicions, and I was lucky enough to get a preview of some of the relevant passerine texts in the forthcoming Lynx Passerines Checklist. Now this promises to be a very stimulating treatment, with many poorly known taxa reviewed and elevated to species rank, though as expected they have ducked the really hard ones like the break up the (Not so) Little Shrike-thrush, Island Thrush and Trumpet Manucode, where the Tobias morphological criteria simply don’t work or it’s in the too hard basket.
Still, here in Australia we can look forward to seeing White-quilled Honeyeater, Golden-backed Honeyeater, Brown Whistler and quite a few regional splits. I am very pleased to see the splitting of Eastern Hooded and Biak Hooded Pitta, Morotai Pitta, The break up of Red-bellied Pitta into 7 in the New Guinea region (ours is Papuan by the way), Rennell Gerygone, the retention of Biak Gerygone (yay!), Biak Myzomela,, Biak Fantail, the resurrection of the venerable Djaul Monarch, Long-billed Myzomela and Obi Paradise Crow. The special offer is open until Dec 15 so I’d have a look at the Lynx website and go from there.
Phil Gregory
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