tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post1372151040477472404..comments2024-03-19T01:38:12.447+00:00Comments on Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park birds: Ralph Hancockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11686354797977020917noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-37288065889091539072021-09-19T03:54:31.880+01:002021-09-19T03:54:31.880+01:00There are many doctors and medical researchers who...There are many doctors and medical researchers who have sad and disabling conditions named after them, and that is their only memorial. Perhaps it is better to be remembered for a disease than to be forgotten.Ralph Hancockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11686354797977020917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-85176348241113725362021-09-19T01:01:08.927+01:002021-09-19T01:01:08.927+01:00To have a slug named after you is the height of in...To have a slug named after you is the height of indignity. Apollo ought to strike down whoever came up with that name.<br /><br />Pigeon Killer's iris does look indeed like an example of sharingan. I wonder what he uses it for.TinĂºvielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04794275230697959519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-54649021279955377162021-09-18T06:11:45.237+01:002021-09-18T06:11:45.237+01:00Thanks. Poor Arion, the golden-voiced singer throw...Thanks. Poor Arion, the golden-voiced singer thrown overboard and rescued by dolphins, and all he gets to commemorate him is a big slug.<br /><br />Thanks for pointing out the correct meaning of <i>uliginosus</i> -- checked with Lewis and Short, text altered.Ralph Hancockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11686354797977020917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-28486455031808242322021-09-18T05:53:44.609+01:002021-09-18T05:53:44.609+01:00Agree Ralph it looks as though the Heron has one o...Agree Ralph it looks as though the Heron has one of the large Arion slugs & seems as though it's trying to get rid of some of the slime.<br /><br />Though Ulex is the Gorse genus I believe uliginosa actually means marshy or full of moisture & quite a few inhabitants of such habitat have uliginosa have this name as a specific epiphet.Conehead54https://www.blogger.com/profile/18423862602236191493noreply@blogger.com