Jane and Tweets,

Isn't variety the spice of life!!?? I took ornithology, mammalogy, etc.,
during Frank Richardson's time and we used lower case. (But, no, he
wouldn't grade off if we didn't.)

As far as runaway hyphenation (only my opinion), I have never figured some
of the hyphens out. Is there justification somewhere?

It was, and is, interesting to note that Roberts, the South African bird
bible, plus all of their other guides, use almost no hyphens. To the other
extreme, bird names are run together: silverycheeked hornbill,
blackshouldered kite, woollynecked stork, etc. Very few hyphens. I asked
when I was there if, perhaps, it was because the Afrikaans language tends
to run everything together, but it was thought not. Language usage is
certainly diverse and interesting.