Dear all,
Below is a message from this committee:
Following the discussion of the possible split of Melithreptus lunatus,
subscribers to Birding-Aus may be interested in the following.
Birds Australia currently has an English Names Committee which is a
sub-committee of the Research and Conservation Committee which is itself a
sub-committee of the BA Council. The ENC is charged with recommending
English names for species new to the Oz list (BA's list is on the website),
whether through BARC or as a result of taxonomic changes such as splits.
The committee membership is at present Simon Bennett, John Blyth, Walter
Boles, Geoffrey Dabb, Mike Carter, Les Christidis, Tony Palliser, Harry
Recher, Peter Menkhorst and Andrew Ley.
It is specifically not the role of the ENC to make determinations on the
status of suggested taxonomic splits such as that proposed for the
White-naped Honeyeater so we have recommended to RACC that a Taxonomic
Advisory Committee be (re)constituted to do that. The result of that
recommendation is outstanding. Matters that will be taken into
consideration by the committee when looking at possible names include such
things as the opinion of the proposer of a split, overseas usage,
established or past usage in Australia, consistency with existing names, and
so on. Decisions of the committee will take the form of recommendations to
RACC.
Andrew Ley, chairman, ENC
Regards
Shirley
Shirley Cook
Secretary/Treasurer
Birds Australia - Northern NSW Group
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