[njlarsen]

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In a different thread http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=124058, we agreed to treat the old Troupial as three species. The reason to take this up here is the name of the present species, "Troupial" or "Venezuelan Troupial". S&M used Troupial, Clements and IOC used the longer Venezuelan T, and H&M has not recognized the split. I believe that our rule is that when Clements and S&M disagree as here, IOC should be the tie-breaker, and if there are no good arguments against, I will rename this species probably tomorrow evening.

Cheers
Niels

Edit: AOU and SACC both also use the Venezuelan T name

[njlarsen]

Done.

I had to delete most of the range which seemed to detail the pre-split range.

Niels