>On Tue, 5 Mar 1996, Dennis Paulson wrote:
>> Northern Oriole split into:
>> Baltimore Oriole Icterus galbula
>> Bullock's Oriole Icterus bullockii
>> Abeille's Oriole Icterus abeillei (Mexico)
>
>Dennis, I don't mean to be nit-picky, but note that the last one's English
>name is officially 'Black-backed Oriole'. Under notes we read "Also
>known as Albeille's Oriole", but apparently 'Black-backed Oriole' is what it
>should consistently be called.

Mea culpa, mea culpa, I'll be wearing a feather shirt all day tomorrow.
Pick all the nits you can find, Michael; it's good for me. I guess the AOU
people figured no one would ever be able to pronounce Abeille's (I believe
it should sound like a-bay-yay's).

That's what happens from trying to fit a tweeters post into a horrendously
busy day. ;-) And while looking for some stuff on the web, I checked out
tweeters e-mail from yesterday (in response to Russell's comments to me
about Montlake Phil and Philosophy) and found that Jon Anderson had already
spilled the check-list news. Sighhh.

And sighhh about the controversy about the dear departed (emigration, not
death) longspur.

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