Acknowledgements

I would like to acknowledge the staff of the Ornithology Department of the Burke Museum, University of Washington, Seattle U.S.A. particularly Sievert Rohwer Curator of Birds and Robert C. Faucett Collections Manager of Ornithology. Dr. Jocelyn Hudon, Curator of Ornithology at the Royal Alberta Museum was very generous with his help. I would also like to thank Dr. Allan Baker, Department Head and Senior Curator of Ornithology and the staff at the Royal Ontario Museum - Glenn Murphy, Ornithology Technician, Mark Peck, Ornithology Technician and Brad Millin, Database Technician. Dr. Rex Kenner, Curator at the Cowan Museum, University of British Columbia. Thanks also to Dr. Kenneth Campbell, Curator of Ornithology and Kimball Garrett, Collection Manager of Ornithology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, California. I would also like to thank the management and staff at the Royal British Columbia Museum in particular Grant Hughes, Director of Curatorial Services, Jim Cosgrove, former Manager of Natural History; Kelly Sendall, Manager of Natural History; Richard Hebda, Curator of Botany; Philip Lambert, Curator of Invertebrate Zoology; Grant Keddie, Curator of Archaeology; Nicholas Panter, Bird and Mammal Preparator, Norman Charbonneau, Tracy Coyle and Andrew Niemann. I would also like to thank the assistance of Karen Martin and Faye McNall.