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Subfossil snipe

Notornis, 34 (4), 343

T.H. Worthy (1987)

Article Type: Letter










The orange-fronted parakeet (Cyanoramphus malherbi) is a colour morph of the yellow-crowned parakeet (C. auriceps)

Notornis, 33 (1), 17-22

Taylor, R.H., Heatherbell, E.G., Heatherbell, E.M. (1986)

Article Type: Paper

Cyanoramphus malherbi (Souance 1857) is relegated to synonymy with C. auriceps (Kuhl 1820) after cross-breeding in captivity showed that both are colour morphs of one species. The resulting parent-offspring data can be most simply explained by the Mendelian theory of dominant/recessive inheritance at a single locus, the factor for yellow-crowned being dominant.