Could the capitalisation of bird's proper names be a simple ruse to
distinguish between those accepted proper names and descriptions?
Examples, " black crow" a decription and "Scarlet Honeyeater" a name.
Peter
On 17/04/2008, at 10:32 AM, Peter Shute wrote:
Why don't you email them and ask them why?
If found this little discussion about the problem:
http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Auk/v100n04/p1003-p1004.pdf
from 1983. They suggest that journals that don't deal specifically
with
birds tend to apply the same capiltalisation rules as they do for
animals.
I'm not fussed which way it's done, despite the advantages of "our"
way,
so long as everyone does it the same way, which they never will. I'm
sticking with our way until the field guides and check lists change.
Peter Shute
wrote on Thursday, 17 April 2008
12:32
AM:
There was a thread a while ago about scientifc journals not
using capital letters for bird names. At the time there was
a lot of criticism of the American journals for adopting this
policy. I note with interest that the latest edition of
Australian Geographic has an article on birds that also does
not use capitals. This is apparently a world-wide(?) problem. Gary
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