[NatureNS] Re: Choice For Our 'National Bird' ...The Gray Jay

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On 11/18/2016 1:20 AM, Wayne P. Neily wrote:

>   / Perisoreus canadensis/, Mésangeai du Canada, Canada Jay, or
> its Algonkin name of 'wis-akajak' is a great choice for our national
> bird, but let's resist calling it what the AMERICAN Ornithologists'
> Union changed its name to.  They not only stole our name of Canada Jay
> and hid it, but to add insult to injury, they used the US mis-spelling
> of "grey"!

* in the fussing about the loss of 'Canada Jay' as a name, no one 
mentions that this was a result of the 1953 decision by the AOU not to 
have English names for subspecies. 'Canada Jay' was the name of 
Perisoreus c. canadansis, which was the subspecies for most of the way 
across Canada, but there's swarms of other nominal subspecies - 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_jay#Distribution - several in Canada, 
so the English name wasn't ever 'Canada Jay' in various corners of 
Canada. So the name 'Canada Jay' wasn't stolen, it was sacrificed to the 
more-or-less good cause of restricting English names to species (rather 
than scrubbing all the nominal subspecies which were just based on 
clinal geographic variation rather than taxon-like geographic breaks in 
variation).

fred.
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