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TABLE 1 in The dark side of birds: melanism-facts and fiction
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TABLE 1 Some examples of melanistic individuals named as new species.
| ‘New’ species | Actual species |
|---|---|
| Mountain Partridge, Perdix montana Brisson, 1760 | Grey Partridge Perdix perdix (Linnaeus, 1758) |
| Sabine’s Snipe Scolopax sabinii Vigors, 1825 | Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago (Linnaeus, 1758) |
| Dicaeum aterrimum Lesson, 1830 | Bananaquit Coereba flaveola (Linnaeus, 1758) |
| Pyrocephalus obscurus Gould, 1839 | Vermilion Flycatcher Pyrocephalus rubinus (Boddaert, 1783) |
| Chestnut-coloured Partridge Ortyx castaneus Gould, 1842 | Northern Bobwhite Colinus virginianus (Linnaeus, 1758) |
| Black Fantail Rhipidura melanura G. R. Gray, 1843 | New Zealand Fantail Rhipidura fuliginosa (Sparrman, 1787) |
| Black Woodhen Gallirallus fuscus Du Bus, 1847 | Weka Gallirallus australis (Sparrman, 1786) |
| English Rock Dove Columba affinis Blyth, 1847 | Rock Dove Columba livia J. F. Gmelin, 1789 |
| Rufous-bellied Coucal Centropus epomidis Bonaparte, 1850 | Senegal Coucal Centropus senegalensis (Linnaeus, 1766) |
| Black-shouldered Peafowl Pavo nigripennis P. L. Sclater, 1860 | Indian Peafowl Pavo cristatus Linnaeus, 1758 |
| Perdix atro-rufa Soland, 1861 | Red-legged Partridge Alectoris rufa (Linnaeus 1758) |
| Verreaux’s Quail Synoicus lodoisiae J. Verreaux & des Murs, 1862 | Common Quail Coturnix coturnix (Linnaeus, 1758) |
| Black Penguin Eudyptes atratus Hutton, 1875 | Fiordland Penguin Eudyptes pachyrhynchus G. R. Gray, 1845 |
| Tetrastes griseiventris Menzbier, 1880 | Hazel Grouse Tetrastes bonasia (Linnaeus, 1758) |
| Monarcha ugiensis Ramsay, 1882 | Chestnut-bellied Monarch Monarch castaneiventris J. Verreaux, 1858 |
| Cory’s Bittern Ardetta neoxena Cory, 1886 | Least Bittern Ixobrychus exilis (J. F. Gmelin, 1789) |
| Sharpe’s Rail Stictolimnas sharpei Büttikofer, 1893 | Buff-banded Rail Gallirallus philippensis (Linnaeus, 1766) |
| Von Huegel’s Snipe Gallinago huegeli Tristram, 1893 | New Zealand Snipe Coenocorypha aucklandica (G. R. Gray 1845) |
| Willkonsky’s Owl Syrnium willkonskii Menzbier, 1896 | Tawny Owl Strix aluco Linnaeus, 1758 |
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Published as part of Grouw, Hein van, 2017, The dark side of birds: melanism-facts and fiction, pp. 13 in Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 137 (1) on page 13, DOI: 10.25226/bboc.v137i1.2017.a9, http://zenodo.org/record/12535456
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References
- Brisson, M. J. 1760. Ornithologia, vol. 1. Paris.
- Gould, J. 1842. [On various new species of Ortyx]. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 10: 181 - 184.
- Blyth, E. 1847. Drafts for a Fauna indica. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 19: 101 - 108.
- Sclater, P. L. 1860. On the Black-shouldered Peacock of Latham. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 28: 221 - 222.
- Menzbier, M. A. 1896. [Syrnium willkonskii sp. n.]. Bull. Brit. Orn. Cl. 6: 6.