The promotion of the Scottish Crossbill Loxia scotica to specific status (Voous 1977) is more than just a systematic technicality of marginal interest to ordinary birdwatchers, but should not be given undue importance. The problems involved, however, are interesting in relation to more than one biological discipline, and the consequences have been elaborately treated already by D r Alan G. Knox, i
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