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Message: <blockquote data-quote="njlarsen" data-source="post: 983187" data-attributes="member: 7427">I took the liberty of sending the address of this thread to the Cornell lab. This is the responce from John Fitzpatrick:Hello Niels --I appreciate this note very much. I had heard about this thread, but not its address. This thread, along with other input we're receiving directly, will be very helpful as we continue to accumulate corrections and, from time to time, post new ones on the Clements website. I can appreciate the frustration of some of those posting. We scientists at the Cornell Lab had negligible input on the text before it was printed. For better or worse, this was pretty much a direct printing by Cornell Press of the completed 6th Edition manuscript left by Jim Clements. But now we ARE in charge of maintaining the database and posting corrections, which we are taking very seriously. I greatly appreciate any and all input, especially about outright errors or omissions. We'll do our best to post these comprehensively and on a regular basis. Taxonomic changes and sequence changes we must deal with differently, and less frequently. Feel free to post this note on the birdforum thread if desired and appropriate.John FitzpatrickDirector, Cornell Lab of OrnithologyCheersNiels</blockquote>