Type locality for Francolinus pictus watsoni Legge,1880,Birds Ceylon,3,p.745.
Does anyone have access to a copy of Legge,1880?
also for Francolinus kirki Hartlaub,1867,Proc.Zool.Soc.London,p.827.
Some other information about Francolins.
If anyone has access to any of the following, they may be able to find
information in those:
Hastings Belshaw,1985,Guineafowl of the World,Nimrod,Hampshire
Snow,D.1978, Atlas of Speciation in African Non-Passerine Birds,Brit
Mus.(Nat.Hist),London
Crowe,1978,Ann.S.Afr.Mus.,76(2),pp.43-136.
An information on the name canidorsalis as a synonym for Scleroptila
shelleyi shelleyi.
Date and type locality for Francolins shelleyi sequestris Clancey,Durban
Mus.Novit.,6(2),p.13, a synonym for S.s.shelleyi
Type locality for Francolinus cruzi
Themido,1937,Compt.Rend.Internat.Congr.Zool.,12,p.1833.a synonym for
Pternistis swierstrai.
Any information on Francolinus jacksonae patriciae a synnym for Pternistis
jacksoni.
Publication and locality details for Francolinus afer loangwae Grant &
Mackworth-Praed,1934, a synonym for Pternistis afer melanogaster.
Publication and type locality details for Pternistis nudicollis Gunning &
Roberts. This may well be able to be found in the paper by Gunning &
Roberts,1911,Ann.Transv.Mus.,3,p.110, in which they put forward Pternistes
castaneiventer as a new name for P.nudicollis,Not of Boddaert.
Does anyone have access to that issue of Ann Transv.Mus.?
Any information about Francolinus afer notatus a synonym for Pternistis afer
castaneiventer.
Other than Francolins:
Type locality for Perdicula argoondah salimalii Whistler,1943,Journ.Bombay
Nat.Hist.Soc.,44,p.208.
Can anyone tell me whether Clancey,P.A.1980,Checklist of South African
Birds,S.A.O.S.,Durban
contains synonyms?
Indeed is anyone aware of any sources for synonyms for African birds other
than Catalogue of Birds of the British Museum and (to some extent)
Hartert,Vog.Pal.Fauna?
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