I, for one, am not certain what is more embarrassing - those banding codes
or the complexity of Greek and Latin translation involving far more
understanding of multi-syllable combinations! Cheers, tmiseattle at msn.com


>From: "Stewart Wechsler" <ecostewart at quidnunc.net>
>To: "tweeters" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
>Subject: [Tweeters] RE: Z. leuc-ophrys = White "eyebrowed"
>Zonotrichiasparrow
>Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:16:06 -0700
>
>After a long search for what "phrys" meant in the scientific name for the
>White Crowned Sparrow - Zonotrichia leucophrys I found out the the Greek
>suffix was not "phrys" but "-ophrys" meaning "eyebrow", so translating from
>the Greek it would be a "white-eyebrowed" Zonotrichia sparrow. I didn't
>look up the etymology of Zonotrichia.
>
>P.S. Though I realized it could embarass, the intent of my original
>response
>was not to embarass anyone, but to continue to discourage the codes in
>subject lines before someone followed the example in the earlier post with
>more posts in code that only a small minorithy of Tweeters subscribers are
>likely to know. It seems that whenever anyone starts using them others
>follow suit. I couldn't think of an effective way of discouraging the use
>of those cryptic codes without risking embarassing.
>
>Stewart
>
>
>-----Original Message----
>Subject: FW: [Tweeters] Montlake confounding codes - WTSP & WCSP = Z.
>albicollis and Z. leucophrys
>
>I... jumped to the conclusion that the White Crowned Sparrow would be
>"albifrons" or "white fronted", but it should have been Z. leucophrys -
>"white-phrysed Zonotrichia sparrow" (I'm afraid I don't know the
>translation
>for "phrys", but I imagine it may refer to the top of the head)
>
>Stewart Wechsler
>West Seattle
>mailto:ecostewart at quidnunc.net
>
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