Here's an excerpt from what Dennis wrote earlier today:

> Sorry Bob, I agree with Lisa and others that if people want to write about
> something, they write about it. I can only hope that people on a geographic
> file server occasionally have a little discourse on birds, to get them out
> of a rut and into the groove. I can envision "anybody know why the Canary
> Islands were named after a bird?"
>
> Dennis Paulson


So my question is this: Were the Canary Islands named after a bird, or
after a dog? Gran Canaria is an island in the Canary Isles, and the word
canaria has to do with dogs. Are these islands significantly populated
with canaries?

Lisa