[NatureNS] MInk and Acadian Chickadee

Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 11:03:34 -0500
From: "Frederick W. Schueler" <bckcdb@istar.ca>
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On 11/15/2010 8:51 AM, Randy Lauff wrote:
> I wonder if "Acadian Chickadee" implies that its first formal
> description was based on a specimen from here somewhere?

* as in the case of the "Prairie Lark" it was an English name for the 
in-this-case-local subspecies (necessarily with a type locality 
someplace in Acadia). The AOU stopped issuing English names for 
subspecies in the 1957 edition of the Checklist.

fred.
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