Kirk Roth
Rarely to be taken seriously

my apologies - but to be fair I was asking clarification on whether that evidence existed. Longspur aside, you may have known that was not the case, but I didn't.Given that threads normally get derailed the first time eponyms are mentioned and head off into basically the same argument that's broken out on a dozen other threads, we did pretty well surviving almost 3 weeks on this one. It would be nice not to have to wade through lots of discussion of whether French names should be changed when there seems to be no evidence that anyone is actively trying to change them, but realistically someone was going to blow the thread up at some point. Some things are inescapable.
Back to the topic, I do like the idea of trying to establish consistent names for different families rather than just "warbler", but I assume that would mean that names would have to change in future if there was a sufficiently major taxonomic reshuffle that the names no longer lined up consistently.
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