Hi
All,
There seems to be a
recent trend of miss-spelling the name of a Cuckoo in recent posts. To be fair
to Mr Horsfield and just to help it not proliferate, I point it out. It is "Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo (with 3 capital letters, because
it is a cuckoo.) Here is an example of two email messages (to & from
me & Sean Dooley of big twitch fame) of why it matters and why I point it
out.
Philip
Hey
Philip,
You?re absolutely
right. I think at one stage I did know that, but over the years had certainly
forgotten and slipped back to adding the e. I have just checked and to my horror
it is incorrectly spelt in The Big Twitch. How embarrassing. Yet another mistake
to be added to the list of things to change come the next reprint, if I ever get
another one.
Thanks for pointing it
out to me,
Sean
From: Philip Veerman
[ Sent: Saturday, 24 March 2007 6:36 PM
To: Sean
Dooley
Hi
Sean,
Actually it is "Horsfield's", not
"Horsefield's", named after Horsfield, nothing to do with a paddock for horses.
Actually the plate for Slater's 1970 field guide (page 121) calls it
"Horsfield Brown Cuckoo!
