[vsnet-chat 4261] Re: tangential...

["Stan Walker" <astroman@voyager.co.nz>]

Oops - John's message encouraged me to forward something I had in my 'sent'
box.

But I see I've been sending messages dated March, not April. Sorry. Almost a
variation of the earlier discussions.

Regards,
Stan


----- Original Message -----
From: <crawl@zoom.co.uk>
To: <vsnet-chat@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 10:30 AM
Subject: [vsnet-chat 4260] tangential...


>
> Somewhat of topic, but it does relate to vsnet webpages : -
>
> A friend of mine is an avian nomenclaturist [actually, he's a human whose
> interested in the nomenclatural rules of avian taxonomy], and out of the
> "blue" so to speak, I've just received this totally unexpected email from
> him [and I don't know why the topic came up, cos I didn't mention it to
> him, and I don't even remember making any such posting!], which I forward
> below
>
> >John,
> >
> >You refer to "the Blue Flycatcher" in one of your VSNET postings, yet the
> >bird depicted on the homepage appears to be a 'composite' with the stance
> >of the Siberian Blue Robin, Luscinia cyane, and the general coloration
> >(especially the extensive black on the throat and breast) of the
> >Blue-and-white Flycatcher, Cyanoptila cyanomelana. Both birds occur in
the
> >Japan area, and  I'm curious as to whether they are confused in reality.
> >
> Well, Dr Kato, are they ever confused with each other?
>
> Cheers
>
> John
>
> John Greaves
> UK
>
>
>

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