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Birds Australia - English Names Committee

To: "Shirley Cook" <>
Subject: Birds Australia - English Names Committee
From: Carl Clifford <>
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 11:35:39 +1100
Dear Shirley,

Hopefully the committee will follow the International Ornithological Union's recommended English names. Seeing as Walter Boles is on the IOU. It is no point re-inventing the wheel.

The Melithripus lunatus split seems to be internationally accepted, with M. chloropsis being listed as a full species in the Index of Organism Names database, I would suggest that the split is a fait accompli.

Regards,

Carl Clifford


On 04/11/2010, at 6:37 PM, Shirley Cook wrote:

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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