This is another tangential comment. Cas suggests not including a
female gender word among the name options. Fine. However it is curious to think
of how many bird common or scientific names reference just the features of the males
of the species. Very few names reference features of the females of the species.
I can think of one: graptogyne (painted lady), for the south-eastern subspecies
of Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo. Are the females of this new one any more cryptic
than males? Are the females of this new one any more cryptic than females of
the closely related species?
Philip
From: Birding-Aus
[ On Behalf Of Casimir Liber
Sent: Sunday, 26 January, 2020 3:19 PM
Cc: Birding-Aus
Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Cryptic Honeyeater
Yes I like cryptic. Imitatress is awkward-sounding and
regressive at a time when we are dispensing with gendered descriptors
(chairman, actress etc.)
On Sun, Jan 26, 2020 at 3:14 PM Tom Wilson <>
wrote:
I
have no influence over any of this...but I like Cryptic – as Imitatress means a
female imitator, one might be led into thinking the honeyeater mimics others
(although I appreciate that Graceful/Cryptic/Yellow-spotted complex do imitate
one another in looks) – Cryptic works better to me.
Sent: Sunday,
January 26, 2020 10:55 AM
Subject: Re:
[Birding-Aus] Cryptic Honeyeater
On
Sat, 25 Jan 2020 at 19:29, Phil Gregory <> wrote:
IOC
Michael, after quite a lengthy process, which involved Lloyd as the proposer of
the new species. To cut a long story short he was happy with Cryptic, one can
go round and round forever so I am hoping we can persuade BirdLife to forgo
Imitatress!
ornithological
writer/tour leader/tour facilitator
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