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| Species | Brown Booby Sula leucogaster |
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| Record ID | 321 |
| Date | 01 Jan 1878 (imprecise) |
| Location | Changi |
| Count | 1 individual |
| Date added | 25 Oct 2021 |
This record has not been accepted by the Records Committee. For more details, see below.
| Background |
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| Dates of sighting are imprecise. To summarise this record: a specimen was apparently collected in 1878 but could not be found by Wang & Hails (2007). Detailed notes below. Wang & Hails (2007) states that "specimens collected in 1878" were not found in the Raffles Museum, citing "Hume & Davison in G-H, 1949a [Gibson-Hill (1950b) in our reference]" and rejects this record. Lim (2009) accepts this as the first record for Singapore, also citing "Hume & Davison collection in Gibson-Hill 1950". Gibson-Hill (1950b) in turn cites page 493 of Hume & Davison (1878), stating that Hume & Davison collected a specimen in Singapore. However, there are no records of the Brown Booby mentioned in the very page of Hume & Davison (1878). Instead, Hume & Davison (1878) state that Sula australis, Steph - the Red-footed Booby - is, quote "very numerous between Penang and Singapore, where Davison procured a specimen, but seen by him continually the whole way up along the coast of the Malay Peninsula ... ...". In Gibson-Hill (1950b), there are no justifications regarding this change in identification. However in Gibson-Hill (1950a), it is stated that, 1: quote, "Davison (Hume & Davison, 1878: 493) claims to have taken a specimen at Singapore", and that 2: Gibson-Hill disagrees with Davison's identifications of the Red-footed Booby and attributes most (if not all) of the records to the Brown Booby instead. This indicates that Gibson-Hill did not see this supposedly collected specimen either. Given it's highly messy state, we are following decisions by Wang & Hails (2007) to reject this record . |
| Verdict | Not accepted (Specimen) |
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| References | Gibson-Hill, 1950a; Gibson-Hill, 1950b; Hume & Davison, 1878; Lim, 2009; Wang & Hails, 2007 |
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| Wang & Hails (2007) | Record is rejected |
| Lim (2009) | Record is present in source |
Bird Society of Singapore. (2021). Record 321: Brown Booby Sula leucogaster. Retrieved April 19, 2024, from https://records.singaporebirds.com/record/321/.