Talk:Hawkins's rail

No taxidermed specimen is known
The text previously said: "A taxidermed specimen is in the collection of Te Papa Museum in Wellington, New Zealand". With the reference: "http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/objectDetails.aspx?oid=541832 Te Papa collection online - Cabalus modestus; paratype". This taxidermed specimen is not the Hawkins's Rail or Giant Chatham Island Rail (Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi), but the smaller Chatham Island Rail (Cabalus modestus). Peter Maas\talk 11:29, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

Date for the erection of Diaphorapteryx
- For birds Wikipedia generally follows the IOC classification and in release 11.1 the date for the erection of the genus Diaphorapteryx was changed from 1893 to 1892. My edit to make this change was reverted with the comment see https://zenodo.org/record/1429351 which links to a scan of Nature 1893 vol 48 p. 126. (also available from BHL here: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19431787 )

Reading the above Nature article it is clear that this isn't the first time the genus has been mentioned in print. The genus was introduced in 1892 in Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club Volume 1, page xxi which can be read here: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32475124

This BBOC reference is given for the genus in the Zoonomen database maintained by Alan P. Peterson - see here: http://www.zoonomen.net/avtax/grui.html

- Aa77zz (talk) 17:42, 8 July 2021 (UTC)
 * The Nature article even refers to earlier articles about the genus, so it's clear that isn't the first mention. FunkMonk (talk) 17:46, 8 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Fair enough, I have corrected the date mentioned in the text to avoid a discrepancy. Hemiauchenia (talk) 17:51, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

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