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Blue-winged Macaw
Thanks for the fixes on the article. It's my first time creating an article relating to an animal. &#8594; Icez {talk | contrib} 00:18, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Help needed on wiki link
Hey Smallweed. Nice to meet you again. I need some help to wiki link on the following ornithologists:


 * Gajduseki's Hooded Mannikin L. s. gajduseki Diamond, 1967
 * Urimo Hooded Mannikin L. s. sepikensis Jonkers and Roersma, 1990
 * Guari Hooded Mannikin L. s. "guariae" Coates, 1990

This is a portion from the article Hooded Munia. I am glad to know you. :) Luffy487 09:50, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Luffy487 10:24, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufous-bellied_Thrush
Dear Smallweed, the song file of this article isn't an external file, It is from WikiCommons.

Zimbres 22:37, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Maybe of interest
Shyamal 15:41, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Please have a look...
Could you please have a look at Bengal Florican, too? I may do similar requests for a few more bird articles. Hope you don't mind :) Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 13:49, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Hans von Boetticher
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Henrietta Anne Stuart
Hello Smallweed: We are having a bit of a discussion about the proper title for this article: Henrietta Anne, Duchess of Orléans, Henrietta Anne Stuart, Henrietta Anne of England or whatever; see Talk:Henrietta Anne, Duchess of Orléans. I would appreciate your input on this issue. JdH 02:16, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Robert Cecil Beavan
Hi, I have trouble with this one, the date of death needs to be checked. The fish book of his published in 1877 makes no mention of his demise. The book is available online. Unless we have two Beavans here. Shyamal 14:30, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Wilkes
thanks for sorting out this one, I thought Charles was a bit young, although he did go to the Cape. Never even found John! jimfbleak 09:50, 14 May 2007 (UTC)


 * thanks, I did wonder were he had acquired his naturist status. jimfbleak 15:06, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Taxoboxes
Hi! Thanks for updating the Haliastur taxobox, to what I'm assuming is supposed to be the standard. Where did you get it? I copied the one from the WikiProject Birds site, assuming that was the one I was supposed to use! MeegsC | Talk 09:26, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

White-eyed River Martin
I saw that this linked to your "to do" list, jimfbleak 15:22, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Category:Near Threatened species
This would be better added to the taxobox than to the articles themselves.... I'll put it in the taxobox. Please revert your edits to the articles. - UtherSRG (talk) 11:40, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Ok, the taxobox is updated. - UtherSRG (talk) 11:47, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Annual --> Annual plant
Thanks for the copy edit. KP Botany 16:58, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Find a Grave
You might find some naturalists at http://www.findagrave.com/; you can add an external link using where "nnnnn" is the ID from the FaG URL. See, for instance, my recent edit to William Henry Hudson. Andy Mabbett 08:53, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Southern Black Flycatcher
HI can you find the page at IUCN for Southern Black Flycatcher thanks ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦  "Expecting you" Contribs 10:27, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Like lightening! ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ "Expecting you" Contribs 10:32, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

River Lapwing
This is Vanellus duvaucelii, and I assume that the name commemorates someone, but I can't find anything plausible, even if I separate the du bit. Any ideas? Jimfbleak 06:17, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Alfred Duvaucel, just added a link there. Shyamal 07:08, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

Purple-bearded Bee-eater
Ooops! I misread it as forsteri, thanks for fixing. Jimfbleak 14:55, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

Missing flower articles
Hi! I see you created some flower articles, perhaps you could check out User:Punkmorten/Tasklist for a list of some missing articles. Regards, Punkmorten 22:43, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

White-tailed Iora
The Marshall author of it could be either Charles or George of the two brothers. Can it be confirmed that it is George ? Thanks. Shyamal 04:41, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I found the description paper and added the reference. It is indeed George. Shyamal 10:41, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

Alphonse Milne-Edwards
As the only contributor of any real information to the Alphonse Milne-Edwards article in over three years, would you happen to remember your source? 24.4.253.249 05:33, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

Bird collaboration of the month
As a member of WP:BIRD you are invited to this month's collaboration

Shyamal 02:24, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

Chinese egret...
Hi - you started this article and it was later categorised as being Indonesian (and from a whole lot of other countries). Can you confirm this either way with reliable references? It would help. cheers. --Merbabu 05:07, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

Ploceus megarhynchus
This is sometimes called Finn's Baya. Any idea why and who the Finn was. I was under the impression that it was Frank Finn but the dates are incorrect and this was identified by a sharp-eyed editor. Shyamal 04:15, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Deepens the mystery. Thanks a lot. Shyamal 13:57, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
 * See NHM Type database

Genus: 	Ploceus Species: 	megarhynchus Subspecies: Author: 	Hume Year: 	1869 Family or Sub-family: 	Ploceidae Reference: 	Ibis, (2) 5 : 356. Type: 	Syntype Description: 	Adult female. Registration No.: 	1887.1.1.1660. Location: 	Kaladoongi, (below Nynee Tal, vide Hume, Stray Feathers, 6 (1878) : 400), India, Dec. 1866. Collector: 	Collected by A. O. Hume. Hume Collection. Notes: 	The other syntype is in the collection. I think it was rediscovered by Finn and hence the common name. Shyamal 14:05, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
 * There is another reference which may explain this (unfortunately have no access)

Finn, F. (1899) On a new species of weaver bird. Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 13(2):377-378. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shyamal (talk • contribs) 14:08, August 27, 2007 (UTC)
 * Has been settled. It was a rediscovery and the inaccuracy of Beolens and Watkins is noted. Shyamal 01:53, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Athi Short-toed Lark
Hi, Smallweed. Can you tell me why you added this bird to Calandrella? CINFO, Gill and Wright, and Sibley and Monroe consider it a good species, but HBW or at least the IBC, IUCN, Clements, African Bird Club, and Zimmerman Turner and Pearson don't. If there's a good reason to overrule HBW and treat it as a separate species, maybe something recent, I'm happy to write a short article to get it off the list of red-linked species. &mdash;JerryFriedman 04:59, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Little context in Anastasio Alfaro
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Zincken or Sommer
Johann Leopold Theodor Friedrich Zincken A hard man to track down if you don't read old German and the computer can't recognize the Gothic text.Look at the German wiki (which I'll soon summarise)though.Acccording to Reinhard Gaedecke Zincken's collection was sold.The Tineidae names are tricky enough even with types. Keep up those testing little stubs. Best wishes Robert (I broke my right shoulder 5 weeks ago so typing is fitful atm Notafly —Preceding comment was added at 13:16, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

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Major and later Sir O. B. St. John
There are several species named after him mostly from the middle east including several species named as sanctijohannis that appear to be after him. He seems to have travelled along with William Thomas Blanford. Any more info ? Shyamal (talk) 04:26, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Many thanks. Have expanded Oliver St John (civil servant). Shyamal (talk) 03:02, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

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Old query
Do take a look at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Birds/archive_19. Shyamal (talk) 15:14, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

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Beavan again
There is some problem - a http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reginald_C._Beavan Ornithilogist (1841-1870) and we have Captain Robert Cecil Beavan (1841-1870).... Shyamal (talk) 14:09, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks. While searching around I discovered I needed your talk archives. So I have taken the liberty of reorganizing your archives for easier searching. Also there is automatic archival after 21 days of no activity to a thread. Hope you do not mind. Shyamal (talk) 02:50, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
 * AMNH response

"Thanks for your inquiry to the American Museum of Natural History Library.

According to the information we have, Robert Cecil Beavan, Lieutenant in the Bengal Staff Corps, died on Feb. 3,1870, at the age of 29 (cf. The ibis, 1870, p. 301-302). His specialty was birds, not fishes. (Also see the reference to him in The Bird Collectors by Barbara and Richard Mearns.)

As you have already discovered, his brother is Reginald Beavan -- "I have lately received a fine pair of this large bustard from my brother, Lieut. Reginald Beavan, of the 22nd Punjab Native Infantry..." Quote from Robert Cecil Beavan's article "Notes on various Indian birds" published in The ibis, 1868, on p. 387.

Lieut. Reginald Beavan, of the Revenue Survey Department of India, wrote several papers on Indian fishes. Some of those articles were published in the Proc. of the Zool. Society of London, 1872 & 1873. So, there is good reason to believe that the R. Beavan who wrote Handbook of the freshwater fishes of India is Reginald the ichthyologist, not Robert the ornithologist."

Shyamal (talk) 03:34, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
 * On further querying on the subsequent papers, the AMNH researchers supply the following

"Thanks for your inquiry.

Here is a paper he published:

Descriptions of two imperfectly known Species of Cyprinoid Fishes from the Punjab, India. By Lieut. Reginald Beavan, F.R.G.S., Revenue Survey Department of India. PSZL, pages 150-153, 1872.

And here is a communication read at a November 1873 meeting:

A communication was read from Capt. R. Beavan, Bengal Staff Corps, C.M.Z.S., containing a list of fishes met with in the river Nerbudda, Minar district of India. PZSL, p.685, 1873 (In the index volume for the PZSL, this entry is listed under the full name of Reginald Beavan.)

We hope this helps."


 * So now it appears that in at least one case the brother appears to have indeed published on fishes. I think this adds additional complications - in the meantime zoonomen.net has made the correction of the Centropus andamanensis citation to Robert Cecil. B. Shyamal (talk) 16:13, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

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Bridgwater Bay
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IUCN status
You've just added the IUCN status "Least Concern" to the Socotra Sparrow and Kenya Sparrow, which the IUCN still does not recognise as separate species. Can you explain? &mdash;innotata 15:05, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Just noticed they are on BirdLife International, but I'm not sure it's right to add this to the taxobox until Red List 2010.2 is put out. &mdash;innotata 15:12, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Athene blewitti
I noticed you had "William Turnbull Blewitt (1816-1889) - Athene blewitti" on your eponym list - it seems to be incorrect - see http://www.archive.org/stream/strayfeathersjou11873hume#page/467/mode/1up (F.R.Blewitt). There was a W Blewitt in northern India but the owl man is from central India and listed as FR Blewitt http://www.archive.org/stream/catalogueofcolle04briti#page/287/mode/1up/search/Blewitt Shyamal (talk) 13:02, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Merriam (taxonomy)


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Monotypic taxa
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