897 AOU Check-list Supplement The Auk 119(3):897–906, 2002 FORTY-THIRD SUPPLEMENT TO THE AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS’ UNION CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS RICHARD C. BANKS, 1,10,11 CARLA CICERO, 2 JON L. DUNN, 3 ANDREW W. KRATTER, 4 PAMELA C. RASMUSSEN, 5,9 J. V. REMSEN,JR., 6 JAMES D. RISING, 7 AND DOUGLAS F. STOTZ 8 1 U.S. Geological Survey, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, National Museum of Natural History, MRC-111, Washington, DC 20560-0111, USA; 2 Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 3101 Valley Life Sciences Building, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-3160, USA; 3 RR2, Box 52R, Bishop, California 93514, USA; 4 Florida Museum of Natural History, P.O. Box 117800, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA; 5 Department of Systematic Biology, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C. 20560-0116, USA; 6 Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University, Foster Hall 119, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA; 7 Department of Zoology, Ramsay Wright Zoological Labs, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G5, Canada; and 8 Environmental and Conservation Programs, Field Museum of Natural History, 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60605-2496, USA This is the second Supplement since publication of the 7th edition of the Check-list of North American Birds (American Ornithologists’ Union 1998). It sum- marizes decisions made by the AOU’s Committee on Classification and Nomenclature between 1 January 2000 and 31 December 2001. The Committee has con- tinued to operate in the manner outlined in the 42nd Supplement (AOU 2000). Changes in this Supple- ment fall into 10 categories: (1) four species are add- ed to the main list or are transferred from the Ap- pendix to the main list because of new distributional information (Larus cirrocephalus, Larus dominicanus, Aratinga mitrata, Phylloscopus inornatus); (2) four spe- cies are added to the main list because of splitting of species previously on the list (Pterodroma sandwich- ensis, Gallinago delicata, Chaetura fumosa, Baeolophus atricristatus); (3) two species replace others now on the list because of splitting from extralimital forms (Phaethornis longirostris, Phaethornis striigularis); (4) one species (Amazilia cyanifrons) is removed from the list because its only representative in our area has been reassigned status and moved to the Appendix; 9 Present address: Michigan State University Mu- seum, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1045, USA. 10 Authors are members of the Committee on Clas- sification and Nomenclature of the American Orni- thologists’ Union, listed alphabetically after the Chairman. 11 E-mail: banks.rc@nmnh.si.edu, or richardpbanks@usgs.gov (5) five species names are changed because of generic reallocation (Platalea ajaja, Porphyrio martinica, Por- phyrio flavirostris, Allenia fusca, Passerina caerulea); (6) spelling of the scientific names of two species is changed because of rules relating to agreement in gender with generic names (Phalaropus fulicarius, Donacobius atricapilla); (7) authorship and date of publication of one species are changed for nomen- clatural reasons (Centrocercus minimus); (8) three En- glish names are changed, one because of a species split (Galapagos Petrel), one to avoid implicit geo- graphic limitations (Mariana Swiftlet), and one to re- flect relationships more clearly (Eared Quetzal); (9) two species are added to the Appendix (Agapornis ro- seicollis, Amazilia alfaroana); and (10) species limits and statements of distribution are changed for two species because of splits of extralimital populations (Zenaida asiatica, Carduelis flammea). In addition, the distributional statements of some species already on the list are amended in instances where significant new information has become available, or where ac- ceptance of distributional records modifies the list of birds known from north of the Mexico–United States border, essentially the southern limit of the AOU Check-list before the 6th edition. The additions to and deletion from the main list bring the number of spe- cies recognized as occurring in the Check-list area (main list) to 2,030. Literature that provides the basis for the Committee’s decisions is cited at the end of the Supplement, and citations not already in the Lit- erature Cited of the 7th edition become additions to it. An updated list of the bird species known from the Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/auk/article/119/3/897/5562277 by guest on 25 February 2023