11-20-2017, 01:33 PM
I've checked for the 'Marsh Deer', and Elaphurus palustris does seem to be the "correct" Latin name.
For the Swans, I suggest that the species present all through the year be called [because of that behaviour] the 'Loyal Swan': I think that this would be Cygnus fidelis but, again, will check. I suggest using 'Snowfall Swan' for the Tundra/Bewick's/Whistling Swan equivalent, because it arrives with (or even "as") the first snowfall of the winter, with the Trumpeter/Whooping Swan equivalent here being the 'Bugler Swan'. I'll check on Latin names for these, too.
For the Saw-billed (or False-toothed) seabird, my Latin name for the one in your waters would be Odontopiscator orientalis which translates literally into English as "Toothed fisher of the east". The Bears call this group of birds by a name that translates as 'Soarers'. Thus this particular species might be called the Eastern Sawbill, Eastern False-toothed Seabird, Eastern Soarer, Saw-billed Albatross (if your nation's colonisers mistook it for an albatross...), or -- of course -- by some native pre-colonial name with a distinct other meaning...
For the Swans, I suggest that the species present all through the year be called [because of that behaviour] the 'Loyal Swan': I think that this would be Cygnus fidelis but, again, will check. I suggest using 'Snowfall Swan' for the Tundra/Bewick's/Whistling Swan equivalent, because it arrives with (or even "as") the first snowfall of the winter, with the Trumpeter/Whooping Swan equivalent here being the 'Bugler Swan'. I'll check on Latin names for these, too.
For the Saw-billed (or False-toothed) seabird, my Latin name for the one in your waters would be Odontopiscator orientalis which translates literally into English as "Toothed fisher of the east". The Bears call this group of birds by a name that translates as 'Soarers'. Thus this particular species might be called the Eastern Sawbill, Eastern False-toothed Seabird, Eastern Soarer, Saw-billed Albatross (if your nation's colonisers mistook it for an albatross...), or -- of course -- by some native pre-colonial name with a distinct other meaning...