Bisbee daily review., 1907-11-24
TITLES OUT OF TONE
lncongrueus Names an Observer
 In a Museum Noted.
BIRDS OF ANOTHER COLOR.
The Purple Finch, For instance, is Not Purple, but Wine coiored, and the Great Blue Heron Is eray-FIowers With Fant zstie Designations.


 Great Blue Heron is eray-FIowers
 With Fant astie Designations.
 'The purple finch" read the man. as he stood before a glass case CT birds in a science museum He squist- ed at the bird and then remarked scornfully, But the bird is not par pie; it is vii e color.' In the next case he encountered the label Great Blue Heron at the feet of an extremely long legged creature who was not biue at all, but a decided gray. The neigh bor Of the blue heron was the green heron," a bird almost brown, with tke tiniest fecks of green on it. Only by a big stretch of the imagination could it be called green. A familiar taokiag water bird bore tlss. name @blaek duck" although it was brown wfsh It's wings tipped a tRwny shade h the next case there were three birds whose names the visitor read with dis. approval. One was the snowflake" small bird of a decided brownisii hue. Another was the purple grae- kle.'' brown bird with only tl1e mer- est suggestion of purple, And lastly there was the "redstart," which was not red at all, but an undeniable orange and black. When he read the next label. Rose Breasted Grosbeck. and observed that only the throat of the bird was rose color, while its breast was gray, the visitor hurried to find the curator to tell him how wrong ly and absurdiy birds were named
 The curator laughed. My dear fei- low" he protested. you have hap pened on about the only birds in the museum that are incorrectly named As matter of fact. the birds found is this part of the country are very well named indeed. and you have picked out only the exceptions. What could i be better named than the scarlet tana- ger. the bluebird. the catbird. the vel low bird, the woodpeciSer, the phoebe. the red winged blackbird, the bobe- | link. etc? If you'll examine the wild flowers you'll find much more incoa- gruous names. For instance. there's ] the oxeye daisy-and. by the way. the oxeye daisy is the common white petalled daisy with the yellow center. | and not the yellow daisy with the brown center. as Is generally supposed Now, I cannot conceive how that little flower appears like the eye of an ex. The black eyed Susan, commonly known as the yellow daisy, Is better named. but it is certainly extremely fantastic. It is crying shame that a certain little sweet pale lavender flower which grows profusely should bear the hideous name of one lowered cancer root because ifs root vaguely resembles a cancer. But the name sticks.
 Then there is the lady's slipper. Can you imagine Iady's slipper fashioned like that? It is pouchy and ciumsg, and its name Is no compliment t6 @e Rair- -Annthar faz -f0t-f1Ad Jndr1oh- is tiny greehish>or creamy white af- fair and is very unattractive In ap- pearance, something ike. wintergresn blossoms. Well, it gets it's name from its root, which bears round scar left by the broken off old stalk which s so unlike the impression Of seal that 1t makes one wonder how any one could possibly have seen the likensm. The false Solomon's seal, by the wSE. Is disgracefully named. It is far prst- tier than the real solomon's seal 45E should have a pretty name Of It's osva.
 Now, the name dogtooth violet Is another bad one. h the first place fke flower does not at all resemble a tooth of any sort, and in the second place 1t Is nothing at sii like a violet The Eiid geranium Is a fra gile flower. lay ender in color. something on the hepat lea type, only considerably larger, so you can see how much likeness k has to the sturdy garden gerxnium.
 You've seen that crimson fewer which at distance looks Ike a wisa rose and whose leaves are much Hlze grape leaves and whose stems are very sticky7 We'll it's name is purple foT- ering raspberry, while it's coIsr s an crimson
 seTha. blue vervain is a tall weed. vith hny, homely flowers. which grows b waste places beside the road. ana k s purple not hIue. The iren weed has queer Latin Hanse which means Mir. Vernon. belonging to New Ysf and Is named after an early Engiza ootansst of New York state.
 How do you suppose those psnk. fragrant blossoms eiorg the rozds which are near cousins to the garden 1hiox got the name of bouncing Bets7 t seems Incongruous and Hippant fsr .s--l ,ther hand. wee do you sus=a gsv< he name eowa4sSs to the smz2 kowers # the meadows II is ces stakszs an ap Jropriafe one. but wonder who eez seived the pretty naae--New Tors