Have a look at the AOU's Committee on classification and nomenclature is considering at http://www.aou.org/committees/nacc/proposals/2009-A.pdf I posted something earlier about their thinking to split the winter wren into new eastern and western species, and about the proposal to split out a red crossbill form from Idaho (probably leading to a number of new species of 'red crossbill' eventually), but matters have advanced, and there is also news about a possible split in the western scrub jay now. There are the usual necessary but hardly momentous tinkerings with scientific names (is it 'bairdi' or 'bairdii'?) too. No announcement will be official till publication in July at the earliest, but in many ways these early treatments are often more interesting and informative than the terser official notices. Bill Whan Columbus ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]