Jack,

You're doing an apples and oranges comparison here. The possible actions
of the "AOU" as described by you in your posting and that of some
hypothetical "BC Listers" as described by Michael in his posting don't
really bear on each other.

Dennis K Rockwell
Kennewick, Washington
denniskrockwell at juno.com

"Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre." Joe Klein

On Sun, 14 Feb 1999 00:54:35 -0800 (PST) "Jack Bowling"
<jbowling at direct.ca> writes:
>Michael P. wrote:
>
>snip...
>>This flap about the Xhummer is one of those small issues which is the
>tip of
>>a larger and much uglier one. I think the most disturbing thing about
>this
>>is the underlying attack on the legitimacy of the BC rarities
>committee. By
>>voting 'Yes, it's countable', one is essentially saying the BC
>committee has
>>no standing in its own province and its decisions carry no force.
>Imagine if
>>BC listers were to start a populist campaign to attack and undermine
>the
>>jurisdictional authority of the Washington Bird Records Committee
>over a
>>similarly unpopular, but perhaps correct, decision. snip...
>




>You're going to have to get over it, Michael. The AOU exhibits no
>hesitatition
>in overriding a status decision rendered by any state/provincial
>committee if
>they seem fit to do so when updating their area-of-responsibility
>checklists,
>something which garners them few brownie points with the serfs out in
>the
>fields. And you can be assured that the B.C. Xantus's will go into
>their
>"Origin uncertain" category in the next revision...
>
>Jack
>---------------------------
>Jack Bowling
>Prince George, BC
>jbowling at direct.ca
>
>

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