Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 23:11:09 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Christian Kessler Subject: Re: ...Historical W[orcester] C[o.] Records In-Reply-To: <007a01c3f8db$8d585ad0$ce5bf7a5@DAD> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have a similar history. I still have the "26th impression, April 1959" copy of the 1947 version that I bought with chore money in the summer of 1959, when I was 11. and any reasonable person knows its a Baldpate [and that the European Widgeon is in fact spelled with a "d" -- someone needs to talk to Jerry Blinn -- not to mention the AOU -- about that.] why'd they change things while I was gone? jck Stan Arnold wrote: >Mark, > >What an interesting rundown! I read the whole thing. > >Question concerning names: were the names Northern Flicker and >Yellow-rumped Warbler the names actually used in the 1948 report? If >so, these names must have changed around 1948, because Peterson's 1947 >field guide (recently refered to in Harry Armistead's marvelous >posting) called them "Flicker" (a separate species from Red-shafted >Flicker) and "Myrtle Warbler." I used this classic Peterson guide more >than three decades ago, and when I returned to birding following a >26-year hiatus, I was under the impression that these name changes were >recent. Not so, based on your posting. > >It is interesting how times change. When I left birding, so many moons >ago, my life list was 72 (hard won)species! Today, that would >represent a slow day in May. > >It is interesting that these events took place before even I was born, >and Truman was President. Thanks for the historical insights. > >Stan Arnold >dy.dx@earthlink.net > > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Mark Hoffman" >To: >Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2004 5:48 PM >Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Rusty Blackbirds-Now Historical WC Records > > > > >>History Buffs -- >> >>...Crow 5; European Starling 30; Yellow-rumped Warbler (myrtle form) >>1... >> >>...Red-bellied Woodpecker 2; Northern Flicker (yellow-shafted form) 2; >>... >> >> > >======================================================================= >To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com >with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey >======================================================================= > > > ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey =======================================================================