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- Title
RAFFLES IN MACRITCHIE FOREST? AN OVERLOOKED COLLECTING 'FIRST' FOR SINGAPORE, WITH CONSEQUENCES FOR AVIAN NOMENCLATURE.
- Authors
Wells, David R.
- Abstract
Clues from the morphology of adult males that the specimen accepted as the type of T. S. Raffles's Calyptomena viridis (Green Broadbill, his 'Burong Tampo Pinang', Aves: Eurylaimidae), came not from south-west Sumatra but from the Thai-Malay Peninsula sink nomenclature introduced on the Asian mainland and force a re-naming of the populations of the Greater Sunda Islands. Touching a small corner of Gathorne Cranbrook's interest in the work of the pioneering zoologists of Southeast Asia, and grist for the mill, this contribution obliges the author to withdraw an opinion (Wells, 2007: 726) that none of Raffles's bird specimens from the Peninsula survived into the modern era.
- Subjects
SOUTHEAST Asia; RAFFLES; BIRD classification; BIOLOGICAL specimens; BROADBILLS; CRANBROOK, Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, Earl of, 1933-; MACRITCHIE Reservoir (Singapore)
- Publication
Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 2013, p237
- ISSN
0217-2445
- Publication type
Article