Addendum

Clarifying taxonomic, distributional and genetic information relating to subspecies of the Hildebrandt’s Spurfowl Pternistis hildebrandti and the Yellow-necked Spurfowl P. leucoscepus

Published in: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology
Volume 90 , issue 3 , 2019 , pages: 279–280

DOI: 10.2989/00306525.2019.1660431

Author(s): Timothy M Crowe FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DST-NRF Centre of Excellence, Department of Biological Sciences, South Africa , Robin M Little FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DST-NRF Centre of Excellence, Department of Biological Sciences, South Africa , Donald A Turner Bird Committee of Nature Kenya, Kenya

Keywords: biogeography , gamebird , Pternistis , spurfowl , taxonomy

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Abstract

We provide suggested errata vis-à-vis Mandiwana-Neudani TG, Little RM, Crowe TM, Bowie RCK. 2019. Taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of African spurfowls Galliformes, Phasianidae, Phasianinae, Coturnicini: Pternistis spp. Ostrich 90(2): 145–172. Firstly, the name fischeri was incorrectly applied to the southern subspecies of P. hildebrandti. The correct name is johnstoni. This taxon is 3.2% (not 0.5%) genetically divergent from P. h. hildebrandti. Secondly, contra Hall [Hall BP. 1963. The francolins, a study in speciation. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zoology) 10: 105–204], P. leucoscepus is not distributed continuously from Eritrea to Tanzania. The northern, nominate subspecies P. l. leucoscepus appears to be confined to Eritrea and north-eastern Ethiopia.

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