<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Dear Tweeters,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">That is interesting to hear about the impending lump of the "Cordilleran" and "Pacific-slope" Flycatchers. A birding friend and I were just talking the other day about clumsy names cluttering the list of bird species. Whenever we revisit this topic, we always agree that the naming committees should include a poet, a Latin scholar, and a biologist. Each of them should have veto power.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I cannot think of any other taxonomic split resulting in two such cack-handed coinages. The word <i>Cordilleran</i> doesn't even sound English. They could have used "Mountain Flycatcher," which was and is available. The name <i>Pacific-slope </i>is hard to say, and we already had far too many hyphenated clunkers back when the split was made; now we have even more. At least these monikers are headed for the nomenclatural boneyard where they belong.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Yours truly,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Gary Bletsch</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div></div></body></html>