Talk:Edward Burton (zoologist)

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Puzzles for zoologists[edit]

Can anyone identify these genera and species, mentioned in the article?

Pelecanus aquilus Linn.
Ratelus, allegedly "Indian Badger" or Ursus indicus
Pipra squalida. The best I can find is this and this, which suggest that it is a synonym for other deprecated and difficult-to-identify species names. I can't work out if it's Fringilla or Sylvia, and it might be neither.

Narky Blert (talk) 23:19, 19 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Pelecanus aquilus is Fregata aquila. Ratelus/Ursus indicus is apparently the Indian subspecies of the Honey badger (I'm not finding any solid sourcing for this synonymy though, just going by inference, but I haven't looked very hard). As the sources you found show, Pipra squalida is a synonym of Fringilla agilis, and the current accepted placement of F. agilis is Dicaeum agile. Plantdrew (talk) 17:56, 20 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Plantdrew: TYVM!. I've added your info as footnotes. (1) Mellivora ratelus is a junior synonym for the Indian ratel Mellivora capensis indica, so I buy your identification. (2) Pipra made no sense to me at all; at least I was halfway-close with Fringilla; I've changed the text from my guessed-at "finch or warbler" to flowerpecker. Narky Blert (talk) 22:15, 20 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]