Re: Parrots

[fredericus ruhe <fredruhe@xs4all.nl>]

Dear Ken,

You're right,

It wasn't assigned nor reffered to anything, but Stidham was "in between the
lines" very clear: Psittaciformes, Loriidae. I don't buy it, nor do Dyke and
Mayr. Please come up with evidence!

Fred Ruhe

If you only have "gossip", please don't publish in "Nature".


At 14:42 25-12-2001, you wrote:
>
>     I didn't realize anyone had actually tried to put this Cretaceous 
>"pseudoparrot" into a particular family.  That is really overreaching, much 
>more so than assigning it to Order Psittaciformes.
>     I personally doubt that it is a neornithean at all, but I wouldn't cast 
>the net much beyond the maniraptors.  I just can't imagine it being a turtle 
>jaw at all.
>         -------  Ken
>
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