>>I used to say "Bee-wick's" until I was corrected (rather nastily, I
>>thought)......now I say "Buick's". If I run into him again, I plan to
>>say "Thryomanes bewickii", with Italian-inflections.
>
> A Buick is a car. "Bee-wick" was a naturalist for whom the wren was
>named. So my ornithology professor professed.
>--
>Scott Richardson

I read, in an article on the pronounciation of bird names that I think was
in *Birding*, that Mr. Bewick's name was indeed pronounced like the car. I
had called it "Bee-wick's" for years.

Dennis Paulson, Director phone 206-756-3798
Slater Museum of Natural History fax 206-756-3352
University of Puget Sound e-mail dpaulson at ups.edu
Tacoma, WA 98416