Birds Australia - English Names Committee

[Carl Clifford <>]

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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