The Slaty Finch Spodiornis rusticus is now known to form a clade with certain other small plain gray or brown finches that occur mainly in bamboo (Burns et al. 2014; Barker et al. 2015), but relationships are not yet well-supported and nomenclatural issues suggest caution. For alignment with e.g., NACC and Gill and Wright (2006, IOC v.1.0), the scientific name becomes Haplospiza rustica.
Clements, J. F., P. C. Rasmussen, T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, A. Spencer, S. M. Billerman, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2023. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2023. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/ (Σύνδεσμος)
Unintended disagreements occur when a parent (B) is
thinned by swapping a child (E) to another part of the
taxonomic tree, resulting in existing IDs of the parent being interpreted
as disagreements with existing IDs of the swapped child.
Identification
ID 2 of taxon E will be an unintended disagreement with ID 1 of taxon B after the taxon swap
If thinning a parent results in more than 10 unintended disagreements, you
should split the parent after swapping the child to replace existing IDs
of the parent (B) with IDs that don't disagree.
