`  == Magpie-goose ==  Hi. Sorry - yes, I should have sorted out the links, and will do so. The current widespread use of the unhyphenated name is because of the belief that Magpie-goose wasn't anything out of the ordinary, but there's now such a weight of evidence that it's not a goose at all, but something more ``primitive``, that a less misleading name is perceived to be needed, especially as it's now being pretty widely touted as a family level taxon. Hyphenating (as per owlet-nightjar, or quail-plover) seems to be the most widely accepted way of fixing this kind of problem.  `