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- Title
Mayr's Swiftlet Aerodramus orientalis: A reinterpretation.
- Authors
Tarburton, Michael
- Abstract
Mayr's Swiftlet Aerodramus orientalis was described from two specimens, one each from the islands of Guadalcanal and New Ireland, 880 km apart and with many other islands between. Both had blue gloss on the dorsal surface and a pale rump and, although one had naked tarsi, the other had feathered tarsi. It is here shown that these features are found on some Uniform Swiftlets A. vanikorensis, with which there is considerable size overlap, and so it is more consistent to subsume Mayr's Swiftlet into the Uniform Swiftlet.
- Subjects
GUADALCANAL (Solomon Islands); NEW Ireland Island (Papua New Guinea); COLLOCALIA; BIRD morphology; BIRD diversity; BIRD physiology
- Publication
Australian Field Ornithology, 2018, Vol 35, p129
- ISSN
1448-0107
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.20938/afo35129131