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Purple Swamphen: Supertramp or superspecies?

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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. There are three subspecies in this group: caspius , seistanicus , poliocephalus — García-Ramírez and Trewick sampled the latter two. Philippine Swamphen.