Subject: Help- Honeyeater and Wheateater-new names?
Date: Aug 12 19:46:59 2000
From: Jack Stephens - jsteph02 at sprynet.com


A friend of mine is transfering his bird sightings of the past many years
from paper records into Avisys. There are two species that ARE listed in my
Avisys 4.54, but not in his version 4.56. Does anyone out there know about
recent lumps/splits for these two birds?


The Golden-backed Honeyeater (also known as Yellow-backed Honeyeater) was
> >seen at Ellis Beach, Australia (near Cairns, Queensland, on January 11th,
> >1984. The field guide gives it a Latin name of Melithreptus laetior. The
> >guide is "A Field Guide to the Birds of Australia" by Graham Pizzey
> >(Collins, 1983).
> >
> >The Schalow's Wheatear was seen in Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania, on March
> >26th, 1992. The given Latin name was Oenanthe lugubris. Field guide: "A
> >Field Guide to the Birds of East Africa" by J.G. Williams and N. Arnott
> >(Collins, 1984).


Jack Stephens
Ellen O'Neill-Stephens
Edmonds, WA
jsteph02 at sprynet.com