Hello Shirley,
Here’s a question for your friends on the ENC:
Is their recommended name for the most common species of Koel in Australia “Eastern Koel” or”Australian Koel”?
Regards, Colin Scouler
On 04/11/2010, at 6:37 PM, Shirley Cook wrote:
> Dear all, > > Below is a message from this committee: > > Following the discussion of the possible split of Melithreptus > lunatus, subscribers to Birding-Aus may be interested in the > following. > > > > Birds Australia currently has an English Names Committee which is a > sub-committee of the Research and Conservation Committee which is > itself a sub-committee of the BA Council. The ENC is charged with > recommending English names for species new to the Oz list (BA’s > list is on the website), whether through BARC or as a result of > taxonomic changes such as splits. The committee membership is at > present Simon Bennett, John Blyth, Walter Boles, Geoffrey Dabb, > Mike Carter, Les Christidis, Tony Palliser, Harry Recher, Peter > Menkhorst and Andrew Ley. > > > > It is specifically not the role of the ENC to make determinations > on the status of suggested taxonomic splits such as that proposed > for the White-naped Honeyeater so we have recommended to RACC that > a Taxonomic Advisory Committee be (re)constituted to do that. The > result of that recommendation is outstanding. Matters that will be > taken into consideration by the committee when looking at possible > names include such things as the opinion of the proposer of a > split, overseas usage, established or past usage in Australia, > consistency with existing names, and so on. Decisions of the > committee will take the form of recommendations to RACC. > > > > Andrew Ley, chairman, ENC > > > > Regards > > Shirley > > > > Shirley Cook > Secretary/Treasurer > Birds Australia – Northern NSW Group > =============================== > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: > unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) > to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au > > http://birding-aus.org > ===============================
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