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Whilst I don't have any particular ties to the article on the Western kukri I am glad to see your clarification for the comment about "white (in spirit)"! I am fairly new to copy editing, and so did my best to understand the article and improve it, but lacking a fuller understanding of the subject I was stumped by that particular phrase. I hazarded a guess that it would mean that the skin was white when preserved in spirits, but could not be certain. It has been niggling at me since!
By the way, would you be able to shed some light on the "1+2, or 1+1+2" reference? I had noticed some experts talk about scale formations as being 1:1:2 and so on, but couldn't work out if that was what was intended here!
Thank you again! — Preceding unsigned comment added by AnthonyW90 (talk • contribs) 11:50, 25 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Mea Culpa, in the older days I tended to post the out-of-copyright descriptions from faunal works verbatim. They are brief and complicated for anyone other than herpers - the scale count terminology for temporals is not well explained - File:Char5_Temporals.JPG - it is about number of primary, secondary and tertiary temporals - the ones behind the eye after the post-oculars and above the supralabials. So it would be 1 primary and 2 secondary temporals or 1 primary and 1 secondary followed by 2 tertiary temporals. I will add it. Shyamal (talk) 12:10, 25 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Can you please lead to a site which can provide some imgs of the above species in Karnataka or Kerala? If you have the photos in your portfolio, please upload them to wikicommons. Thanks.

Will keep it in mind. Thanks. Shyamal (talk) 07:58, 11 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hello again. I've been working on the Negros Fruit Dove article and was wondering if you would be willing to create an image for it. The species is only known from a single female specimen, and an image can be found here. Thank you so much. Rufous-crowned Sparrow (talk) 20:16, 19 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome back. Will try but it will have to wait a week or so. Shyamal (talk) 01:24, 20 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Not a problem. Thank you. Rufous-crowned Sparrow (talk) 01:54, 20 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

When you get the chance, could I also trouble you for a picture of the Sulu Bleeding-heart? BirdLife has an image. Thank you, and no real rush. Rufous-crowned Sparrow (talk) 03:49, 26 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the Negros Fruit Dove image. It looks good overall, though I have a few minor quibbles. Per Gibbs and HBW, the eyering should be about twice the size it is now and about the same shade of yellow as the undertail. The yellow wingbar stretches to where the wing turns upwards to the shoulder, and there aren't any hints of white in the belly- all the green areas are basically the same shade as the back feathers.

I'm also taking the Lāna'i Hookbill through GAN, and the reviewer raised a question about your image for the species. The hookbill (at least the specimen we have) had a white chin with a white arc coming off of it towards the eye (viewable in the picture you based it on), and the wing feathers seemed to have been more black with yellow edges than brown. I also wanted to thank you again for creating these; they really make the articles work when either there are no pictures of the species due to its rarity or when we cannot find a public domain picture, and I am in awe at your abilities to create these complex images. Thanks. Rufous-crowned Sparrow (talk) 18:49, 26 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"and there aren't any hints of white in the belly- all the green areas are basically the same shade as the back feathers." - I am reading this as "it should show more white on the belly" - I thought I shaded it down to grayish green on the underside - at least on my screen but have added more white to the lower abdomen now; the description says the feather bases on the underside are grey and show through in places, which I think would be more of a case with a ruffled specimen. I think any more bare skin around eye would be quite odd looking; the description says about 3 mm wide around eye. Will look over Dysmorodrepanis soon. Shyamal (talk) 02:36, 27 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. I think the hookbill and fruit dove look good, and the bleeding-heart might be my favorite of your artwork yet. It looks good from Gibbs, but Gibbs presents it at a weird angle so I'll check HBW at the library to confirm. Thank you. Rufous-crowned Sparrow (talk) 20:41, 29 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]