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[vsnet-chat 6217] (fwd) Re: birds and stars, apus v apus (Poxon)
- Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 09:16:18 +0900 (JST)
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- From: Taichi Kato <tkato@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
- Subject: [vsnet-chat 6217] (fwd) Re: birds and stars, apus v apus (Poxon)
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From: "michael poxon" <m.poxon@virgin.net>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 15:17:17 +0100
Apparently, it was common for people to cut off the legs of Birds of
Paradise so as not to embarrass the magnificence of the plumage, whence the
latin A-pus (i.e., without legs) which is borne out by the genitive Apodis.
Mike
I wonder why
> the constellation Apus and the ornithological Apus refer to different
> genera?]
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