>And Dennis Paulson wrote -
>
>>There is a valid Louisiana record, also, published in American Birds.
>
>This record was subsequently rejected by the pertinent Rare Birds
>Committee.
>
>Jack Bowling

This shows the problems that happen again and again when rare-bird reports
are published in American Birds or WOSNEWS or any other local journal, then
the bird-record committee rejects them. The rejection is often not known
to those who know about the original record (e.g., this bird), and an error
is perpetuated for a long time (maybe not forever--we haven't arrived at
that point in time yet). I'm all for not publishing records of rare birds
until the relevant committee has reviewed them, but I think I'm in a
teeny-tiny minority. HOT NEWS is just too exciting to suppress.

Dennis Paulson, Director phone: (206) 756-3798
Slater Museum of Natural History fax: (206) 756-3352
University of Puget Sound e-mail: dpaulson at ups.edu
Tacoma, WA 98416