Corrigendum to: The Common Myna (Sturnus tristis) in urban, rural and semi-rural areas in Greater Sydney and its surrounds (Emu - Austral Ornithology, 114, 3, (241-248), 10.1071/MU13029)

Throughout this paper the scientific name Sturnus tristis was given for the Common (or Indian) Myna. Noting that this was done at the insistence of a reviewer and approved by the editorial process, we here note that the paper’s accessibility will be enhanced by stressing that the scientific name used in a 2014 paper should have been Acridotheres tristis. Based on their interpretation of molecular systematics of starlings then available to them, Christidis and Boles (2008) had advocated the option of placing this species in the genus Sturnus instead of in Acridotheres. Research into the molecular systematics of starlings, some of which has appeared since Christidis and Boles (2008), however, affirms the use of Acridotheres tristis for this species (see Zuccon et al. 2006, 2008; Lovette and Rubenstein 2007; Lovette et al. 2008). So, too, recent compendia (e.g. Higgins et al. 2006; del Hoyo et al. 2009) as well as more current global checklists of the world’s birds (e.g. BirdLife International 2014; Clements et al. 2014; Dickinson and Christidis 2014; Gill and Donsker 2015) all advocate the use of Acridotheres for this species.