[WikiEN-l] naming convention for birds

[Dante Alighieri]

At 09:02 PM 5/31/2003, you wrote:
>daniwo59 at aol.com wrote:
>
>>Where was the discussion for the naming convention for animals. A new 
>>user is reverting the Canada goose, and I really don't want to get into 
>>that whole fight again.
>>
>>Danny
>
>It was never resolved.
>According to the The Globe and Mail Style Book: "The generic English names 
>of animals and plants, and common adjectives attached to them, are 
>lower-case".  Certainly the provisions of a Canadian style book should 
>apply to a Canadian species.
>
>Also the Style Manual for Biological Journals as "Prepared by the 
>Committee on Form and Style of the Conference of Biological Editors of the 
>American Institute of Biological Sciences" states at page 68, "Generic 
>names used as vernacular names are neither italicized nor capitalized"

The Canada goose is not a strictly Canadian species. There are countless 
Canada geese every day (during the appropriate season) in my neighborhood, 
and I live in California.


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Dante Alighieri
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    -Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
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