tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684843.post4631254015707970663..comments2024-03-26T22:16:26.572-04:00Comments on Terrierman's Daily Dose: Tastes Like ChickenPBurnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05781540805883519064noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684843.post-67207921153963775352009-02-20T14:43:00.000-05:002009-02-20T14:43:00.000-05:00Lots of wonderfully obscure birds in the Philippin...Lots of wonderfully obscure birds in the Philippines. The food-market discovery (certainly not the first, and probably not the last) reminds me of a story: A friend of mine who has done field work in the Philippines was once tasked with collecting specimens of a recently-discovered, not-yet-formally-described wetlands denizen—a rail, if memory serves. His team found the bird, collected a specimen, prepared a study skin and also, being hungry graduate students, breasted the bird and had it for dinner. Upon returning to the States, they learned that the ornithologist who was working on the formal description had decided the new skin was of higher quality than the one he had been using, and based his formal description upon it, making it the official type specimen. As my friend recalled with amusement, "I actually <I>ate</I> the holotype!"Mark Churchillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12953322913824828711noreply@blogger.com