Bob,
I have no idea on which albatross taxonomy it will follow. Hopefullly it
will at least treat each form of albatross separately so observers can work
out which form they are looking at, irrespective of whether it treats them
as species.
Incidentally re your comment about "currently approved classification", some
other checklist committees overseas have started recognising certain
elements of what you described as the proposed classification. So the
authors of the new book can't please everyone no matter what they do.
Finally, another good book for dealing with albatrosses is Hadoram
Shirihai's book on Antarctic Wildlife - it has a lot on all albatrosses and
southern petrels in there, with photos and plates.
Murray
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