User talk:Smallweed

PMeleski

Thanks Smallweed for tidying up and looking over the bird stubs I've been adding over the past week. More to come..............

Władysław Taczanowski

Hiya, I was looking at the Władysław Taczanowski article, and wanted to verify some of the information. Did you create the page? If so, could you let me know what your sources were, so I know where to look? I think I may be related to him, and want to doublecheck this. Thanks very much, Elonka 13:16, 1 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

taxobox help

Hullo. I didn't know some of the info for the Scarlet Robin's taxobox. If you've got a moment, please check it out. The Flame Robin article may provide a bit of assistance. Tomer ^talk 11:26, 18 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. :-) Tomer ^talk 11:35, 18 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I started Regent Parrot now too. I based the taxobox info on the dutch article which just said "Lear" for the author, so I had to take a rather wild guess as to who "Lear" was... Tomer ^talk 22:28, 20 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks...I shoulda taken that {{bird-stub}} offa there a long time ago. :-p Tomer ^talk 20:53, 23 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

More help needed on this... the Vampire Finch (Geospiza nebulosa), which seems to be the Wolf Island (Galapagos) subspecies of Sharp-beaked Ground Finch (Geospiza difficilis), is not listed on the page you gave me. That said, some sources on a google search seem to call the Sharp-beaked Ground Finch Geospiza nebulosa instead of Geospiza difficilis, which is adding to my confusion. Anyhoo, I'm thinking maybe it would be prudent to find some more authoritative source on Darwin's finches before proceeding with more articles, but meanwhile there are some question marks I've left in the Vampire Finch taxobox. Tomer ^talk 03:01, 26 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

From what I've read, the Vampire Finch is the Wolf Island subspecies of the Sharp-beaked Ground Finch... Do you happen to have access to either of the offline sources mentioned in the Darwin's finches article, or to any other possible sources that discuss the Vampire Finch? I'd like to track down where this comes from...if the only thing that distinguishes them from the Sharp-beaked Ground Finch is their diet, I find it odd that they'd be assigned to a distinct species. Tomer ^talk 09:25, 27 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

After a great deal of digging around, I find that a number of places call the species Geospiza difficilis and others Geospiza nebulosa, but only one that lists both[1]. Since none of the sources I've seen list either name as specifically referring to Sharp-beaked Ground Finch any more than to Vampire Finch (nor vice versa), it seems that there are 2 competing names. What remains then, is to figure out which sources are more authoritative... and if there is a genuine disagreement within the scientific community over what the name of the bird should be, that can be covered in the article, but for right now, what I'm seeing is that they're the same species, with 2 different names. A google search for Geospiza difficilis (excluding wikipedia and mirrors) returns 402 hits[2], while Geospiza nebulosa (excluding wikipedia and mirrors) returns only 55[3]. I ran the search that way because I was thinking maybe this difference had started on wikipedia, but running the search without excluding WP and mirrors returns 466[4] and 67[5] respectively. Conclusion: at first blush, I don't see that this is an inconsistency that was spawned by malicious editing on WP. I'm cross-posting this to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Birds, just so you know, but I really don't have the resources available to me to figure this out on my own. Thanks for your time, Tomer ^talk 10:26, 27 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for changing the frog articles to include the correct authority. --liquidGhoul 03:40, 24 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Chew Valley Lake FAC

Hi, I've resubmitted Chew Valley Lake as a featured article candidate, because it didn't receive enough support last time.

As you have edited this page in the past I wondered if you would be willing to visit and comment/support on the nomination? Rod 20:24, 26 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Crowned Eagle

Regarding your moving of the Crowned Eagle page:

While I'm grateful for your concern, unfortunately I'm going to have to revert this. Google search for Crowned Eagle and it is indeed Stephanoaetus coronatus that shows up exclusively on the first 5 pages at least. Please note that I'm an experienced birder and thus consider myself almost an authority on the matter. This is a matter of notablity, and a revert is required. Should you wish to debate this further, I'll be happy to get a mediation going over it. Thanks, TydeNet 05:02, 17 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

- Good work with the renaming. The rename combined with the disambig should solve all. Keep it up. TydeNet 10:51, 17 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

James Augustus Murray

I just added a stub for James Augustus Murray and discovered another entry James Murray (lexicographer) and it appears that they are the same, but the latter articles says nothing about the zoological contributions, but the online library catalogue of the Natural History Museum London clearly gives the following author and references (NHM catalogue)

Murray, James Augustus Henry, Sir.(1887-1890) The Avifauna of British India and its dependencies : a systematic account, with descriptions of all the known species of Birds inhabiting British India . tables of their geographical distribution in Persia, Beloochistan, Afghanistan, Sind, Punjab, N.W. Provinces, and the peninsula of India generally. London ; Bombay, 1887-1890.

Murray, James Augustus Henry, Sir. (1890) The Avifauna of the Island of Ceylon : a systematic account, with descriptions, of all the known species of birds inhabiting the island, also observations on their habits, nidification, &c., and tables of their geographical distribution throughout India, &c. London ; Bombay, 1890.

How do we reconcile this, perhaps User:Flapdragon can help. Shyamal 03:12, 28 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Intruiguing. I note also The Zoology of Beloochistan and Southern Afghanistan, The Plants and Drugs of Sind, The Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, etc. I can't be certain, but while Murray was interested in natural history in his youth, and it's certainly a remarkable coincidence of names, it seems to me it can't be the same man. He was far too busy at that time working on the OED to be romping round the subcontinent cataloguing plants. As far as I know he never went to India, and there's no mention of anything relevant in his DNB entry. If only we had some dates for the naturalist (the lexicographer lived 1837–1915). It might be worth contacting OED (perhaps through oed.com or askoxford.com), but I think we can be fairly safe in assuming they're not the same man. Flapdragon 14:10, 28 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

OK, having now actually read the stub(!) -- curator at the Kurrachee Municipal Library and Museum, etc -- I am now certain they are not the same man! Perhaps, unless he was known by those three names, the entry should be entitled James Murray (naturalist), and James Augustus Murray made into a disambiguation page? Flapdragon 14:13, 28 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

On the point about dates, what's the source of those given? Is there a confusion with the lexicographer? Flapdragon 14:17, 28 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks, I have done the changes, so it is now J. A. Murray (naturalist) and the other redirects to Sir James Augustus Murray. I have written a note to the NHM library folks-hope they can help us and correct their catalogue. Shyamal 03:35, 29 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

NHM has confirmed error in their catalogue and will be fixing it. They have not been able to find much about this Murray either :( Shyamal 09:11, 23 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Tanagers

I've written Passerini's Tanager and Cherrie's Tanager, but I can't find anything on Messrs Passerini or Cherrie. I'd be grateful if you could help on this, thanks, jimfbleak 06:33, 18 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for Cherrie, I'm sure we'll get Passerini eventually, jimfbleak 05:24, 20 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've tracked down Signor Passerini, and added him to the article, but not enough to do even a stub for him - I think he was early 19th century. jimfbleak 15:02, 21 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hair-crested Drongo

Hair-crested Drongo is very fine. In fact I grew up on that name until the new generation guides changed it to Spangled Drongo. Thanks a ton for the cats and author links. Shyamal 02:42, 25 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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List of namesakes of birds to do

Hi Smallweed - I've started Ludwik Mlokosiewicz. Can you check it over for relevant categories, style, any additional info, etc., please! - thanks, MPF 12:14, 1 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Also, should the page be moved to the Polish orthography Ludwik Młokosiewicz (with the stroke through the l)? - MPF 12:18, 1 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thomas Hardwicke

There is a reference to a F.R.Hardwicke on Uromastyx_hardwickii. Any idea if one of the names are incorrect ? Shyamal 04:18, 7 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a ton as always. I have fixed it on that page, but it seems to be repeated in other places. I found a couple of sites even converting the Major-General to Hardwicke M. G.! wonder if the FR came from a fragmentation of FRS ? Shyamal 09:04, 7 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

A token of appreciation

		The Bio-Barnstar
		For the quiet, continuous and meticulous contributions in identifying species authors, linking them and providing so much information on the colourful personalities behind various species. Shyamal 09:08, 7 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

THanks

Thanks for adding author info to Indian Riodinidae. Just for info, I'm in the process of Lepindexing the Indian Lycaenid list so if you come across these articles you may, if you so prefer, like to hold off for a while. I'd much prefer to ask you to help me solve some of the problems I'm facing rather than you take over the grunt-work which I or any other person can do anyway. The Biobarnstar is well-deserved. Regards, AshLin 02:41, 14 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

C. T. Bingham

You had the article at the same time as user:Notafly ! I merged it into Charles Thomas Bingham. Thanks ! Shyamal 05:23, 16 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Long talk page

Greetings! Your talk page is getting a bit long in the tooth - please consider archiving your talk page (or ask me and I'll archive it for you). Cheers! BD2412 T 00:39, 17 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Pied Thrush commemoration

Thanks for that info. I used to think it was a Samuel Neville Ward (ICS, Nilgiris) but given the years, I now have second thoughts. See [6] [7] Shyamal 04:14, 19 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sulphur-winged

thanks for the named for - I couldn't track down which Hoffmann it was. jimfbleak

Thanks for Hugh Algernon Weddell corrections

I knew that you were interested in Hugh Algernon Weddell from your list of people to do. I was amazed to see that you found the page within 7 hours of it being created! Anyway, thanks for cleaning it up - I couldn't find some of those French links, even though I tried. --Jonathan O'Donnell 02:52, 16 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

List of Australian Birds

Thanks for the tidy-up. Amazing how many typos there are there. I had noticed a few, but there may be more still.

Alfred Newton

Since you started this article, you sound like a good person to ask a question to. Newton was a biologist who worked on Spitzbergen for a while. Now, in the east of the island, lies Spitzbergen's highest mountain: Newtontoppen, occasionally known in English as Mount Newton. It seems a no-brainer that these two are connected, but I can't find any reference to it! I don't expect you to be the world expert on the subject just because you started the article, but... any ideas? TheGrappler 17:59, 24 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Don't worry, not so much a no-brainer after all. The Norwegian Polar Institute reckons that it was named after Isaac Newton. Shame really, would have been a nice touch to Alfred's article! TheGrappler 18:05, 24 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]