Yes, this is an essential point because naming a bird after some hornythologist does not provide any clue to the phenotype of the species. In the health care profession there are also many conditions, syndromes, diseases and disorders that are named after a researcher or clinician that studied it, thus resulting in eponymous dedication. Never mind Wilson's warbler. What about Wilson's disease! Fortunately in both medicine and ornithology there are also Latin names, or Greek names that are often descriptive if you have some smattering of a dead language. In medicine there are alternate names that are more descriptive making it unnecessary to memorize Wilson's, Huntington's, Kleinfelter's, and Bright's, among many others. If you have a myxoid chondrosarcoma it sort of describes itself once you understand the root words. One does not need to go look up somebody's name to figure out what the disease is all about. The names of birds should be like the Doc says, describes what the bird looks like, or an identifying behaviour. A Mute swan is silent, while a Trumpeter swan honks like a horn. It's not a trombone swan, or a tuba swan, or a saxophone swan even though they are all horns and sounding like all of them at one time or another would just place a swan at risk of being pronounced as a horny swan, which they are at this time of year anyway, but once again I've managed to digress. Oh dear, is it Shortsighted disease? I have an SSD?
