The Eponym Dictionary of Birds observations on natural history and

observations on natural history and behavior

Stercorariidae

Skull pneumatization

The Food of Crows

and Flores Crow have never before been illustrated

The Eponym Dictionary of Birds observations on natural history andBirdwatchers often come across bird names that include a person's name, either in the vernacular (English) name or latinized in the scientific nomenclature. Such names are properly called eponyms, and few people will not have been curious as to who some of these people were (or are). Names such as Darwin, Wallace, Audubon, Gould and (Gilbert) White are well known to most people. Keener birders will have yearned to see Pallas's Warbler, Hume's Owl,