Hi Chris, et al.

No, Clay-colored Sparrow was taken off the Maryland Review List in 1999.

BTW, anytime anyone wants to know what's on the current review list, 
it's always accessible on the MD/DC Records Committee web pages at 
the URL in my signature block. The direct link to the Maryland Review 
List is here ...

         http://www.mdbirds.org/mddcrc/pdf/mdreview.pdf

... it's only two pages ... I suggest that birders keep a copy tucked 
inside their field guides ...

If you want to know even more about the history of the species in MD, 
pull up a copy of the Maryland database, also on our web pages, and 
do a search or find for "clay-colored" and you can see all of the 
reports and records for the species in Maryland. Most of these are in 
the "reviewable" category and are from the days after Stewart and 
Robbins (1958) was published and the formation and early days of the 
committee, up until the species was formally removed from the Review 
List in 1999. Most of these historical reports were published sight 
records that were not probably documented and will likely not be reviewed.

Hope this helps ...

Phil


At 14:19 01/21/2007, Chris Starling wrote:
(snip)
>Is this a reviewable bird in MD? -I would imagine that it is...

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