AOU Committee on Classification and Nomenclature (North & Middle America)
Pending Proposals, 2007
Proposals must receive a 2/3 positive vote by committee members to pass. Votes may be subject to change pending further data. Thus, the outcome of proposals is not final until published in the annual supplement to the
Check-list of North American Birds (July issue of
The Auk).
Proposals 2008-A (PDF)
- 2008-A-1: Change family-level placements of several genera in the Emberizidae and Thraupidae
- 2008-A-2: Add Crowned Slaty Flycatcher, Griseotyrannus aurantioatrocristatus, to the check-list
- 2008-A-3: Merge Cichlherminia into Turdus
- 2008-A-4: Change vernacular names of Sharp-tailed Sparrows
- 2008-A-5: Split Lepidocolaptes lacrymiger from L. affinis
- 2008-A-6:
Adopt a new English name for Cerorhinca monocerata (Charadriiformes, Alcidae)
- 2008-A-7: Misc. details
- 2008-A-8:
Split Passerculus sandwichensis into as many as four species
- 2008-A-9:
Split Carduelis into two or more genera
- 2008-A-9A: Recognize the subgenus Acanthis as a genus
- 2008-A-9B: Recognize the subgenus Spinus as a genus
- 2008-A-9C: Remove C. sinica ands C. chloris from the genus Carduelis and place them in a genus with Rhodopechys
- 2008-A-10:
Change linear sequence of trogon genera (SACC #337)
- 2008-A-11:
Change English names of mostly Palearctic birds to follow BOU
- 2008-A-12: Change linear sequence of species in Turdus (SACC #338)
