Check-list of North American Birds

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This edition includes taxonomic decisions made by the Committee on Classification and Nomenclature of the American Ornithologists' Union up to March 1997. In general ,taxonomic and systematic literature published after 1996 has not been reviewed. An important exception to that cutoff date is Ornithological Monographs no. 48, the contents of which were well known to the Committee because of editorial overlap. No new distributional information was included after about 31 December 1996. Because of the considerable gap between return of the reviews of distributional information by regional authorities and the publication of this volume, it is likely that some important distributional records have been overlooked. This edition of the Check-list contains 2 ,008 species, a significant increase from the 1,913 in the sixth edition. Of the total, 991 are nonpasserines; of the 1,017 passerines, 254 are suboscines and 763 are oscines. Of the latter, 315 are nine-primaries oscines. There are 83 additional species in part 1 of the Appendix, and 34 in part 2.

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SWAP (2/19/2016) citation [with edition added]:
American Ornithologists’ Union. 1998. Check-list of North American birds. 7th ed. Washington, DC: American Ornithologists’ Union