# Talk:Melampitta

Homobatrachotoxin in the Genus Pitohui: Chemical Defense in Birds?
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Rather a poorly researched family but some stuff here! Sabine's Sunbird  talk 20:01, 20 May 2017 (UTC)

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Reviewer: Casliber (talk · contribs) 22:10, 10 June 2017 (UTC)

I'll take this - notes below: Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 22:10, 10 June 2017 (UTC)

being considered at one time related to the pittas, Old World babblers and birds-of-paradise. - they weren't considered related to all three at once...? So reword/ add "variously" or something?
Fixed. Sabine's Sunbird  talk 02:07, 11 June 2017 (UTC)
it's not "melam", but rather melas "black", or stem is melano- -  from p. 431 of my Liddell & Scott Ancient Greek Dictionary, meaning "dark, gloomy, dusky, black"
Fixed. Sabine's Sunbird  talk 02:07, 11 June 2017 (UTC)
could link "taxonomic dustbin" to Wastebasket taxon
Fixed. Sabine's Sunbird  talk 02:07, 11 June 2017 (UTC)
Both species have a discontinuous distribution across New Guinea, and the greater melampitta is generally a rare bird that is seldom encountered, although this may because it lives in seldom visited areas - recommend changing one "seldom" and hyphen after the second one.
Fixed. Sabine's Sunbird  talk 02:07, 11 June 2017 (UTC)
"disconfirmed" ? - could find a plainer word than this I suspect.
I went with refuted. Sabine's Sunbird  talk 02:07, 11 June 2017 (UTC)
link terrestrial
Done. Sabine's Sunbird  talk 02:07, 11 June 2017 (UTC)
Otherwise looking pretty "Good"....

Al done now, thanks Cas. Sabine's Sunbird  talk 02:07, 11 June 2017 (UTC)
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Pass or Fail:  - nice read Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 04:21, 12 June 2017 (UTC)