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Purple Swamphen: Supertramp or superspecies?

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Black-backed Swamphen ( Porphyrio indicus ) in Java, Indonesia, by Ron Knight. the eBird/Clements checklist puts them in a group as of version 6.9), but as far as I can tell, the new study didn’t sample viridis specifically. subspecies and subspecies groups may represent species-level lineages.” Gray-headed Swamphen.