Re: Strange thoughts on PN - was Re: BAD vs. BADD

[Tommy Tyrberg <tommy.tyrberg@norrkoping.mail.telia.com>]

"Pulchrapollia" does not mean "beautiful parrot" but simply "Pretty Polly". 
At least that is the information I got from one of the authors.

Tommy Tyrberg



At 20:08 2006-09-03, Tim Williams wrote:

> Mike Taylor wrote:
>
> > No, but parrots are Pollyphyletic.
>
> Incidentally, this pun isn't as bad as you might think (though it is 
> pretty bad).  In 2000, Gareth Dyke and Joanne Cooper named a new fossil 
> parrot _Pulchrapollia_ ("beautiful parrot").  Thus, "Polly" (for parrot) 
> officially entered the scientific nomenclature.
>
> Cheers
>
> Tim