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And another very interesting essay added to our website: Bird Names and Naming: Some Historical Aspects By John Rowlett   

"Obviously, a describing ornithologist is implicated in the choice of any eponymous designee(s). Just as obviously, the retention of English eponyms does not imply endorsement of the character for whom any bird was named. And an argument for the retention of eponyms should in no way be understood as failing to recognize the need for an increasingly diverse and inclusive community of birders/ornithologists, necessarily united in the cause of increasing, throughout the Americas, our common efforts at conservation and the retarding of avian extinction."

Click the link above to read all of John's very interesting comments.