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scientific names RFI?

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Subject: scientific names RFI?
From: Clive Nealon <>
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 18:06:24 -0700
You could try -
'A Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names' by James A Jobling.
OUP 1991- ISBN 0-19-854634-3

or (less complete)
'Birds - Their Latin Names Explained' by A F Gotch
Blandford Press 1981 - ISBN 0 7137 1175 2

Regards, Clive.

 wrote:

A new question:
Any sources for explanations of birds' Latin/Greek scientific names? Something like the explanations given in the Cuppers' book on raptors...

Thanks.



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