Proposal
(3) to South American Checklist
Committee
Change
English name of Olivaceous Cormorant to Neotropic Cormorant
The Howard-Moore baseline
list that I sent you still uses "Olivaceous Cormorant" for Phalacrocorax
brasilianus. However, this name is no longer used by most references. It is
"Neotropic Cormorant" in AOU Checklist (1998), Handbook of Birds of
the World, Sibley and Monroe (1990), Blake (1977), and Meyer de Schauensee
(1970), as well as almost all recent (at least since the change of the
scientific name from olivaceus to brasilianus)
regional/country guides in Neotropics.
I propose that we use
"Neotropic Cormorant."
Van
Remsen, October 2000
December 2001: note:
Howard-Moore draft has changed from Olivaceous to "Neotropical."