At 11:54 5/01/2000 +1100, you wrote:
>Does anyone know the etymology of Jack Winter? Is it named after Mr Jacky
>Winter? Or is the 'Jacky' part named after someone and the 'Winter' some
>reference to season? Or is it some 19th century colloquialism? And thus, if
>one was so silly as to only use capitals for the common names of birds,
>except where those common names comprised otherwise capitalised words, does
>one capitalise Jacky, Winter, both or neither?
>
>
>Sean Pywell.
>
Hi Sean
J.D. MacDonald published a little known book in about 1987, entitled
"The illustrated dictionary of Australian Birds by Common Name" which
gives this sort of info.
For Jacky Winter, he states:
"Given from early days 'jacky', possibly from call note resembling 'jacky-jacky'
but 'winter' is obscure; Vigors and Horsfield recorded in 1827 that 'Mr Caley
informs us that the boys of the colony call it Winter, the reason for which
he does
not give'"
That all
Cheers
Pete
Dr Peter Woodall email =
Division of Vet Pathology & Anatomy
School of Veterinary Science & An. Prod. Phone = +61 7 3365 2300
The University of Queensland Fax = +61 7 3365 1355
Brisbane, Qld, Australia 4072 WWW = http://www.uq.edu.au/~anpwooda
"hamba phezulu" (= "go higher" in isiZulu)
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