I noticed the blog Kevin and Evan linked to also as I was looking for further info on this species, subspecies or whatever. I wondered about the spelling and read several links from Google and finally decided to go with Cornell Lab and Clements Checklist of Birds of the World even though the majority of references use Cassiar.
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/corrections/Nov08overview

After reading Kevin?s post I decided to find something more definite about the names origin. All I could find was this link.

http://www.jeaniron.ca/2011/cassiarjuncoRF.pdf

The Google reference indicated it was provided to this ofonews by Wayne Weber. Anybody have anything more?


Either way I don?t imagine the birds will care.

Joseph Higbee
Spanaway, WA
Mailto: jvhigbee at hotmail.com