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Message: <blockquote data-quote="l_raty" data-source="post: 1873648" data-attributes="member: 24811">Well, in the case of cayanus, at least more than just what could be assimilated to a case ending has been modified ('-enne' became '-anus'), making the name look "more" adjectival.But the spelling of Guajanus, except for the final '-us', is letter for letter that of the country/region name as used by <a href="http://www.archive.org/stream/vollstndigesnat00houtgoog#page/n166/mode/1up" target="_blank">Statius Müller</a> in his German description of the species ("Aus Guajana hat man eine Drossel gebracht" = From Guiana, one has brought a thrush)...For a Latin or Greek noun/name in any case (instead of a Germanized Guanao name), a simple change of the last letter of the word into '-us' would never, as far as I know, be treated as evidence of adjectivisation. So I'd certainly also be interested to know why this name should be regarded as adjectival...Of course Hydrornis guajanus is OK either way.</blockquote>