I agree Merrilyn, more confusing than clarifying. Good grief, somebody
actually sat down and wrote that stuff and expected others to
understand, Yikes !
-----Original Message-----
From:
On Behalf Of Merrilyn Serong
Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 11:54 AM
To:
Cc: 'Birding-aus (E-mail)'
Subject: Hyphens and "wrens"
This is an interesting site.
http://www.worldbirdnames.org/rules-compound.html
After reading it, I think I was more confused than before! Cheers,
Merrilyn
wrote:
> I wondered the other day why Red Wattlebird doesn't have a hyphen???
> Its only the wattle that is red, not the bird. Should it be
> Red-wattled bird, or Red-wattled Wattledbird. ; )
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> Peter Shute <>
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> Tony Russell <>, "'Birding-aus (E-mail)'"
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> RE: [Birding-Aus] Hyphens and "wrens"
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> Thanks, Tony. I knew someone would know.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Russell
> Sent: Tuesday, 1 December 2009 10:42 AM
> To: Peter Shute; 'Birding-aus (E-mail)'
> Subject: RE: [Birding-Aus] Hyphens and "wrens"
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> No no no Peter, they ran out of hyphens.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> On Behalf Of Peter Shute
> Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 10:05 AM
> To: Birding-aus (E-mail)
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Hyphens and "wrens"
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> I never realised there's a hyphen in "fairy-wren", and "emu-wren" too,
> till I saw the responses to my recent posting in the never ending
Jabiru
> discussion. They don't put a hyphen in grasswren, fernwren, heathwren
or
> scrubwren, and I just assumed none of them had one.
>
> Does anyone know the reasons for this? Surely it's not just the
> result of
> some random decisions.
>
> Peter Shute==========www.birding-aus.org
> birding-aus.blogspot.com
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