quick note about flying things

[RLR]

My recollection is that we were talking about flying things AND creepy
crawly things as separate sets. BTW anyone know how hummingbirds fit? In
some folk taxonomies they go with locusts and other large insects.

Bob

ardis eschenberg wrote:
>
> I mentally noted in an earlier discussion on classifications of birds that
> 'wagdhishka' in Omaha-Ponca was being used to refer to flying things.  I am
> hesitant about this classification.  It seems to refer mostly to bugs in
> current use which seem folk-taxonomically related to reptiles:
>
> wagdhishka hi duba 'alligator' (literally: insect foot four, 'four-footed
> insect')
>
> So, this would not necessarily be the best name for the classification of
> flying things (it indeed seems to indicate other features as salient, those
> which link reptiles and insects).
>
> I seem to have deleted the message this refers to and thus cannot quote it
> (i'd bet money though that it was from John K. since it was on Omaha!).  I
> apologize.
>
> -Ardis