> Yeah, seeing as how little ol' England doesn't have any of those types of
> beasts, we don't care much how they are named :-))
Well, your "Buzzard" is our "Red-tailed hawk", as well. Don't know *which* lot of immigrants came up with that one.
(Remember - "Americans" probably didn't come up with those new (or re-used) names, some settler (English, French, Spanish, German, Pole, Irish, you name it) did. "Americans" had their own names for animals before the white man came...)
RR
He was born with the gift of laughter and the sense that the world was mad
R. Sabatini, Scaramouche
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