Why the taxonomy of francolins and spurfowls (Galliformes, Phasianidae) needs revision: responses to Hustler (2021) and Hunter et al. (2021a,b)

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1 FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa 2 Department of Biodiversity, University of Limpopo, Sovenga, South Africa 3 Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America * Correspondence: timothy.crowe@uct.ac.za