Philip, If you’d read the “Poultry, Birds, etc” column in the Saturday “SMH” in the ’60s, you have seen tons of ads for “turks, bourkes” and other parrots. Nobody had any doubt what they were, and they have been “turks” to me ever since. Actually, at that time they were more formally called “turquoisines”, by Sydney bird dealers anyway. I don’t mind precision in names, as it prevents confusion, so I’m happy to be corrected. Stephen
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Either common name or scientific. I think, though that Confucius would have been referring to the common name, as he predated Carl Linn by some 2,000 years.
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By proper name, then, I assume you mean their scientific name … On 10 May 2015, at 11:51 am, Carl Clifford < carlsclifford@gmail.com> wrote:
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Confucius said, “The beginning of wisdom, is to call things by their proper name”. Carl Clifford
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