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alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Thursday, September 3 2020 Volume 14 : Number 4907



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Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2020 03:42:02 -0400
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The wren family is a group of generally small passerine birds, found b with one exception b only in the New World. Although the cactus wren is the largest wren in the US, globally the title is shared between the giant wren and the bicolored wren. It was historically considered conspecific (of the same species) with the Yucatan wren and Boucard's wren, but there are numerous morphological and behavioral differences between the species. A 2007 genetic study by Barker indicated that all three were distinct species. Work on wren taxonomy in the 20th century postulated that the Yucatan, Boucard's, and cactus wrens b along with the spotted wren b might constitute a superspecies. The 2007 study showed this to be unlikely, as the cactus wren was found to be ancestral to the other species. Study of the evolution of the cactus wren suggests that it evolved in central Mexico about one million years ago and quickly spread to its modern range.

The first description of a cactus wren was in 1835 by ornithologist FrC)dC)ric de Lafresnaye. Lafresnaye was a Frenchman who never visited America; his specimen was gifted to him by ornithologist and businessman Charles Brelay. Brelay procured the specimen from a naval officer who had recently returned from California. It is likely that the bird was picked up at the port of Guaymas, in Sonora. Lafresnaye did not know that however, and thought the specimen b which he called Picolaptes brunneicapillus b might have come from Peru (far outside the range of the wren), as the officer had stopped there on his journey. The unclear geographic origin contributed to much ensuing taxonomic confusion. Because the original description of the wren had been geographically imprecise, ornithologists described the cactus wren multiple times as different species; incorrect descriptions happened until as late as 1898. Subspecies were also incorrectly described as independent species. Matters were not helped by ornithologist John Gould, who described the cactus wren b as Thryothorus guttatus b independently in 1836 and also failed to say where precisely his specimen had come from. Lafresnaye renamed Gould's find as Campylorhynchus guttatus in 1846, still not realizing they had described the same bird. Although ornithologist Spencer Baird suggested in 1864 that Lafresnaye and Gould's birds might be the same, Lafresnayes and Gould's separate descriptions continued to be used until 1945, when it was determined that they were different subspecies of the same bird. The cactus wren was placed in the genus Helodytes by the American Ornithologists' Union in 1894, but they returned it to Campylorhynchus in 1947.:212b215

The genus name Campylorhynchus is Greek, and roughly translates to "curved beak". The specific epithet brunneicapillus translates as "brown hair", referring to the brown head and back. The bird's common name comes from its frequent use of cacti as nesting sites, its association with cacti,:1 as well as the use of cacti for perches, roosting, and seeking protection from predators.

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