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Posted by Bill Pranty on 13:44:31 06/07/07
In Reply to: Re: County List posted by John Boyd
The decision by AOU (2000) to split the Stripe-headed Tanager into four species is in response to the paper by Garrido et al. (1997), who recommended the following English names:
Northern Stripe-headed Tanager,
Puerto Rican Stripe-headed Tanager,
Hispaniolan Stripe-headed Tanager,
and
Jamaican Stripe-headed Tanager
The AOU (2000) deviated from these recommended names "to avoid long hyphenated compound English names." The name Spindalis does have an English basis, as this is the name that Bond ... James Bond (1936) used when he still considered the various spindalises to represent different species.
So the AOU didn't create an English name for Spindalis; they simply resurrected a name not used for 64 years.
PDFs of Garrido et al. (1997) and AOU (2000) can be donloaded free of charge from (http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Wilson/v109n04/p0561-p0594.pdf) and (http://www.aou.org/checklist/Suppl42.pdf). respectively.
Best regards,
Bill Pranty
Bayonet Point, Florida
ABA Checklist Committee chair
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