<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Europa is the name of a princess in Greek mythology, so indeed an eponym. Although it may have originated from “eur” (wide) and “op” (referring to vision), so perhaps means wide-seeing.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div>And of course you mean Red Junglefowl, don’t you? Or is it <i class="">Gallus gallus</i>? ;-)<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And I agree with you entirely.<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dennis Paulson</div><div class="">Seattle</div><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 23, 2024, at 2:45 PM, <a href="mailto:heapbigdoc@netscape.net" class="">heapbigdoc@netscape.net</a> via Tweeters <<a href="mailto:tweeters@u.washington.edu" class="">tweeters@u.washington.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:arial;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" class="">Yes, it was mostly intended in jest, but if the AOS really means to go ahead with getting rid of eponymous common names shouldn't they be consistent? And shouldn't they change "European" and "Eurasian" just to be safe, since Europe may be an eponym? </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" class="">Then there's absurdity of re-re-changing Rivoli's Hummingbird, Morelet's Seedeater, Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay, and Montezuma Quail (I leave Lucifer Hummingbird as an exercise for the student). Or perhaps they could use the common sense of the ordinary chicken instead of going out of their way to create confusion.<br class=""></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">Tweeters mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Tweeters@u.washington.edu" class="">Tweeters@u.washington.edu</a><br class="">http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>