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From: john@nmtsun.nmt.edu (John Shipman)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: Name that bird; I have one
Keywords: picky, picky, picky
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Date: 1 Aug 89 00:06:09 GMT
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Amber Tatnall (amber@scott.stat.washington.edu) writes:
> Sorry to be so picky, but Juvenal was a Roman satirical poet.

I believe the ``juvenal'' spelling is acceptable.  Steen's
_Dictionary of Biology_ gives two definitions: (a) as a
synonym for juvenile, and (b) referring to the plumage
following the natal down.

(Sorry to post a spelling flame, but when I tried
to e-mail this, it bounced.)
-- 
John Shipman/Zoological Data Processing/Socorro, New Mexico
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