{"id":8948,"date":"2014-07-15T03:27:56","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T10:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=8948"},"modified":"2014-07-14T09:38:42","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T16:38:42","slug":"who-is-pedioecetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/15\/who-is-pedioecetes\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Is Pedioecetes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Sharp-tailed Grouse by Rick Wright, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rickwright\/8607398980\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8542\/8607398980_fb5a2c57bc_z.jpg\" alt=\"Sharp-tailed Grouse\" width=\"640\" height=\"504\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This time of year, as we wait (this time a little longer than usual) for the now-annual Supplement to the AOU\u00a0<em>Check-list<\/em>, I always recall <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversitylibrary.org\/item\/36307#page\/288\/mode\/1up\">the jocular complaint published in <\/a><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversitylibrary.org\/item\/36307#page\/288\/mode\/1up\">The Oologist<\/a>\u00a0<\/i>more than 90 years ago: We birders, wrote that long-ago\u00a0correspondent,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>have to stand by and see Oberholser stick his knife through all our historical and time-tried nomenclature and cannot do a thing about it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The reference, of course, is to Harry C. Oberholser&#8217;s long series of &#8220;Notes on North American Birds,&#8221; published in the\u00a0<em>Auk\u00a0<\/em>beginning in 1917 and\u00a0ultimately preparing the way for the third edition of the <i>Check-list<\/i>, which finally appeared in 1931.<\/p>\n<p>But who was the author of the complaint? He signed himself thus:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Your best friend, Pedioecetes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you know, fill me in. Otherwise I might have to figure it out myself.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This time of year, as we wait (this time a little longer than usual) for the now-annual Supplement to the AOU\u00a0Check-list, I always recall the jocular complaint published in The Oologist\u00a0more than 90 years ago: We birders, wrote that long-ago\u00a0correspondent, have to stand by and see Oberholser stick his knife through all our historical and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/15\/who-is-pedioecetes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Who Is Pedioecetes?&#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":[36,38],"tags":[229,88,227,228],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8948"}],"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=8948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8949,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8948\/revisions\/8949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}