Items in rec.birds

Subject:Re: Giant lizards.
Date:Fri, 09 Feb 2007 19:15:33 -0000
From:Josh Hayes <joshno@spamblarg.net>
Newsgroups:alt.religion.kibology,rec.birds,alt.english.usage,sci.bio.herp
Adam Funk <a24061@yahoo.com> wrote in news:2tgu94-5sv.ln1
@news.ducksburg.com:

> Leo wrote: 
> 
>> As you spend more time on U.S.NET you will find that many discussions
>> are improved by cross-pollination, just like bird breeding. I, for one,
>> am happy to see all aspects of the herpetolgy phylum discussed on this
>> chat board.
> 
> I *so* *hate* to be pedantic, but herpetology concerns a class rather
> than a phylum.

Well, if you're going to be pedantic, be better at it.

Herpetology concerns TWO classes: Reptilia and Amphibia, both, as you point 
it, in the phylum Chordata.

And since the class Aves should arguably be within the class Reptilia, I 
guess this is sort of relevant to rec.birds.

-Josh