Scott Richardson:
>If the editor has no preference, use your own. Capitalization does assist
>the person who might not otherwise know that Yellow Warbler isn't just
>any warbler and Little Stint is likewise a certain critter.

True...after all a "little stint" could be used to describe some
contracting jobs I've taken!

Same is true of mammals, etc, though. As I mentioned, capping
nouns used to be common ("Hark, I hear a Bear") and at some
point became archaic.

Too bad Daniel Webster didn't tackle this when he cleaned up
things like "honour" and "colour".


-Don Baccus-