Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 21:21:31 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Phil Davis Subject: Taxonomy Changes Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed MD Ospreyers: FYI ... the AOU just released its 44th Supplement to the 7th edition of the Check-List of North American birds. For us here in Maryland, the most obvious change is the of common name "Rock Dove" to "Rock Pigeon". A number of scientific names and genera were changed and there were also changes to the order of the checklist, most notable the movement of the Anseriformes (waterfowl) and Galliformes (domestic fowl and game birds) to the front of the list after the Tinamiformes (Tinamous). OK, everyone, now repeat after me ... "Rock Pigeon" ... "Rock Pigeon" ... "Rock Pigeon" ... Happy Atlasing ... Phil =================================================== Phil Davis, Secretary MD/DC Records Committee 2549 Vale Court Davidsonville, Maryland 21035 USA 301-261-0184 mailto:PDavis@ix.netcom.com MD/DCRC Web site: http://www.MDBirds.org/mddcrc/rcindex.html =================================================== ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================