etymological ornithology . . .?


	This brief excerpt is from yesterday's "A.Word.A,Day" site,
	to wit: *



	pedigree


	MEANING:

	1. Lineage or ancestry
	2. A distinguished ancestry
	3. The origin or history of a person or thing.

	ETYMOLOGY:

	From Anglo-Norman pe de grue (crane's foot),
	from p' (foot) + de (of) + grue (crane),   from the resemblance of
	a crane's foot in to the succession lines in certain genealogical  
charts.
	Earliest documented use: 1425.


	* as distinguished from towhee.

					LW

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