{"id":10334,"date":"2015-09-05T11:42:41","date_gmt":"2015-09-05T18:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=10334"},"modified":"2015-09-05T11:42:54","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T18:42:54","slug":"dialogue-in-the-drawers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/05\/dialogue-in-the-drawers\/","title":{"rendered":"Dialogue in the Drawers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversitylibrary.org\/item\/21148#page\/577\/mode\/1up\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10335\" src=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Screenshot-2015-09-05-14.30.16.png\" alt=\"Screenshot 2015-09-05 14.30.16\" width=\"462\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Screenshot-2015-09-05-14.30.16.png 462w, http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Screenshot-2015-09-05-14.30.16-300x257.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re not already crazy, thinking hard about\u00a0<em>Passerculus\u00a0<\/em>sparrows will drive you there fast.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/15632006225_1b6081314c_k.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-10336 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/15632006225_1b6081314c_k-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"15632006225_1b6081314c_k\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/15632006225_1b6081314c_k-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/15632006225_1b6081314c_k-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/15632006225_1b6081314c_k.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The only consolation: greater spirits than ours have been confused by these\u00a0streaky devils.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Ridgway corrected\u00a0the labels of the <a href=\"http:\/\/n2t.net\/ark:\/65665\/385428e11-cebd-4b43-ae57-fb302cac24c5\">co-types of the <\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/n2t.net\/ark:\/65665\/385428e11-cebd-4b43-ae57-fb302cac24c5\">San Benito sparrow<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>to read &#8220;<em>P. guttatus<\/em> Lawr.!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I assume it was the\u00a0explanation point that rankled.\u00a0In any event, not long thereafter, Elliott Coues corrected his corrector, adding beneath Ridgway&#8217;s notation the words &#8220;Scarcely! stet\u00a0<em>sanctorum<\/em>&#8211;C.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know whether the two actually ever sat down to <em>talk<\/em> about those skins. But each had made his point, loud and clear.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re not already crazy, thinking hard about\u00a0Passerculus\u00a0sparrows will drive you there fast. The only consolation: greater spirits than ours have been confused by these\u00a0streaky devils. Robert Ridgway corrected\u00a0the labels of the co-types of the San Benito sparrow\u00a0to read &#8220;P. guttatus Lawr.!&#8221; I assume it was the\u00a0explanation point that rankled.\u00a0In any event, not long thereafter, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/05\/dialogue-in-the-drawers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dialogue in the Drawers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,66],"tags":[233,578,206,577,576],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10334"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10334"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10338,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10334\/revisions\/10338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}