Subject: Re: Aythya in English
Date: Apr 18 18:19:53 1997
From: Mike Patterson - mpatters at orednet.org




And according to _The Dictionary of American Bird Names_ (E.A.Choates, 1985):

Aythya (and apparently more correctly Aethya) = "a kind of water bird" for
Homer's _The Odessey_ and Aristotle's _Natural History_.

>
>Bob,
>
>According to *A Source book for Biological Names( E.C. Jaeger. 1955. Thomas
>Pub.), Aythya comes from the Greek aithya meaning "seabird."*
>
>Andy Stepniewski
>Wapato WA
>>Tweets,
>>
>

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