R. Terry Chesser,^1,2,* Kevin J. Burns,³ Carla Cicero,⁴ Jon L. Dunn,⁵ Andrew W. Kratter,⁶ Irby J. Lovette,⁷ Pamela C. Rasmussen,⁸ J. V. Remsen,⁹ Douglas F. Stotz,¹⁰ Kevin Winker<sup>11

1</sup>1 U.S. Geological Survey, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Laurel, Maryland, USA
²2 National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA
³3 Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, USA
⁴4 Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
⁵5 24 Idaho Street, Bishop, California, USA
⁶6 Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
⁷7 Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York, USA
⁸8 Michigan State University Museum and Department of Integrative Biology, East Lansing, Michigan, US
⁹9 Museum of Natural Science and Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton
¹⁰10 Science & Education, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, USA
¹¹11 University of Alaska Museum, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA

^*Corresponding author: chessert@si.edu; Chairman of the Committee on Classification and Nomenclature—North and Middle America, of the American Ornithological Society (formerly American Ornithologists' Union). All authors are members of the Committee, listed alphabetically after the Chairman.