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funny biological names

Christian Steel csteel at darwin.uio.no
Wed Jan 19 12:26:34 EST 1994


There is a european bird called _Syrrhaptes paradoxus_, a franquoline-like 
thing. I am not quite sure of the origin, but I think the ornithologists that 
described it had a hard time investigating its habits...

Christian Steel
Univ. of Oslo
Norway




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