I think illustrations such as the ones on Wiki and in Simpson & Day
point to the lore on either side of the head as a pair and therefore
as lores. In Proctor and Lynch's Manual of Ornithology, the
illustrations of the general topography of a bird indicate a lore .
The illustrations in Wiki and S&D. are trying to do the rather
difficult job of showing a feature that occurs on both sides of a
birds head in a two dimensional image. This is a not uncommon
practice, unfortunately, and does lead to some confusion.
Cheers,
Carl Clifford
On 12/02/2007, at 11:00 AM, Peter Shute wrote:
So the diagram in Simpson & Day is wrong or at least slightly
misleading? Also the picture in the article at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_anatomy. The text for the latter
seems wrong too.
Carl Clifford wrote on Monday, 12 February 2007 10:16 AM:
Peter,
You are correct, Lores is the plural and Lore is the singular. The
word comes from the Latin "lorum" which means strap.
On 12/02/2007, at 10:00 AM, Peter Shute wrote:
I have seen a few books and websites that describe the area
between a bird's eye and bill as the "lores", and some that
describe it as the "lore". I would assume that "lores" is
plural, but many diagrams (e.g. Simpson & Day) use the word
on a picture of the side of a bird, where all the other terms
are singular. So which is it - does a bird have one lores or
one lore on each side of its head?
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