Talk:Blue-faced honeyeater/GA1
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Reviewer: Ucucha 14:45, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
The first sentence of "Taxonomy" is incomplete; do you mean he also considered placing it in other genera?And why would the specific name change when he puts it in another genus?
- Oops. Made it a sentence. The names are all from Latham's source, but I need to find a fulltext of Latham's 1802 work to clarify :/ Casliber (talk · contribs) 17:18, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
- It's on Google Books here, but I don't get the full text; perhaps someone in the U.S. will. Ucucha 17:24, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
- Neither do I - I recall Sasata finding this somewhere - but where? Casliber (talk · contribs) 11:20, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
- Looking at this page, and searching for "cyanops" and Entomyza sheds some light on the case however - duly clarified.
- It's on Google Books here, but I don't get the full text; perhaps someone in the U.S. will. Ucucha 17:24, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
- Oops. Made it a sentence. The names are all from Latham's source, but I need to find a fulltext of Latham's 1802 work to clarify :/ Casliber (talk · contribs) 17:18, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
myzein is not a stem, but the infinitive.
- correct. stem --> word.
- ento-, on the other hand, can hardly be called a word, so I made it just "Ancient Greek". Ucucha 08:57, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
- correct. stem --> word.
otis/ωτος: that's not the correct transliteration. I guess the first is the way the word is used in Latin, and the second the correct Greek genitive.
- Yes, it is an awkward construction and you're right. I figured the genitive allowed one to see the 't' in the word root as the nominative in Greek is contracted. Maybe just having as ωτ- is better (?) Casliber (talk · contribs) 17:18, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
"Molecular work supports the current classification of albipennis and cyanotis, while only one bird of griseigularis was sampled and shown to be generically close to cyanotis." perhaps it would be better to introduce the subspecies before you say this.
The description has a lot of very short paragraphs.
What is the subspecies in Victoria and in the Aru Islands?
"Prey are caught mostly by sallying, although birds also probe and glean." please cite
"Their diet consists of pollen, berries, nectar, from such species as grasstrees (Xanthorrhoea) and scarlet gum (Eucalyptus phoenicea), and cultivated crops such as bananas or particularly grapes, but the bulk of their diet consists of insects, including cockroaches, termites, grasshoppers, bugs such as lerps, scale (Coccidae) and shield bugs (Pentatomidae), beetles such as bark beetles, chafers (subfamily Melolonthinae), Click beetles, Leaf beetles, ladybirds of the genus Scymnus, weevils and shot hole borers, flies, moths, bees, ants and spiders." that is one sentence; probably not a good idea.
You give the scientific name for some other species of birds mentioned, but not all; it should be there either for all or none.
"The Blue-faced Honeyeater may be kept in an aviary in New South Wales as long as the owner has a Class 2 Licence, that is two years' experience of keeping birds and demonstrate has appropriate facilities to house them." unclear
"Birds from south western and southern New Guinea. Nova Guinea Résultats de l'expédition scientifique Néerlandaise a la Nouvelle-Guinée." (ref. title) That sounds odd: what is the "Nova Guinea" doing in the middle?
White 1922 (current ref. 34) is missing volume number.
- Some inconsistency in refs, mostly because some but not all use the cite templates.
Ucucha 14:45, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
I'll now pass this as a GA; thanks for all the improvements. Ucucha 16:20, 12 August 2010 (UTC)