Talk:Sind sparrow

Name
Shouldn't this be Sind Jungle Sparrow? All of these names are quite old-fashioned: Sindh is the correct spelling. —innotata (Talk • Contribs) 21:08, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
 * The IOC seems to think it should be "Jungle Sparrow". Sindh is certainly the better spelling. Older literature uses "Rufous-backed Sparrow". http://www.archive.org/stream/faunaofbritishin02oate#page/238/mode/2up/search/pyrrhonotus - Rasmussen uses Sind Sparrow and so does HBW. I think it is better than Sind Jungle Sparrow, which has been used although the word jungle has a confusion between etymological origins (where it refers to scrub and cultivation) and common usage (=dense forest) etymology. Shyamal (talk) 08:32, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
 * According to Summers-Smith, the name Rufous-backed Sparrow was that first proposed for this species (rather late: in 1921). However, this name was also used for the Rufous Sparrow of Africa (now split into at least 4 species), so a certain Ticehurst proposed the name Sind Jungle Sparrow for this species. This name thus has the greatest pedigree. My sources on etymology say jāngāl is Sanskrit for "wilderness." I'll add a good deal of this to the article page some time. —innotata (Talk • Contribs) 16:38, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Update: On enquiry, the IOC indicated that they had tried to trim two adjective bird names wherever it produces a unique name so they had trimmed "Sind Jungle Sparrow" to "Jungle Sparrow" instead of the alternate trim to the already well established "Sind Sparrow". This change was subsequently made in the IOC English names list. Shyamal (talk) 06:25, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Sindhi

 * (جھركي)

I've removed this as it is not clear what it refers to. The sparrow? Sindh? —innotata (Talk • Contribs) 16:25, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Probably not useful sources
Here are some sources that probably aren't useful as references, and even more so as further reading, which they were listed as:

&mdash;innotata 01:25, 24 July 2014 (UTC)

WP:URFA/2020
Our map File:PasserPyrrhonotusMap.svg is sourced but the IUCN's map shows a wider distribution. In particular, the IUCN's map shows western Pakistan and eastern Iran, areas also mentioned in our article. A455bcd9 (talk) 16:20, 10 December 2022 (UTC)