British Conservationists and Museum Scientists

Abstract

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Type specimens in modern ornithology are necessary and irreplaceable

“…This description provoked a series of discussions and debates (e.g., Peterson and Lanyon 1992, Prinzinger et al 1997a, Collar 1999, Collar 2003, Bates et al 2004, in which it emerged that decisions about what to do with the individual were based on the idea that only a single individual had been noted of a putatively new species, such that the species must be quite rare and probably endangered. Indeed, Collar (1999), who was consulted by those who had captured the odd individual, defended his recommendation to liberate the ''type'' as follows:…”