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Cindy Hamilton says...
>
> On Monday, October 10, 2016 at 2:59:42 PM UTC-4, wrote:


> > I suppose it is not surprising that again the US 'thinks' it is the
> > only one - perhaps that is because the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from
> > Plymouth where they catch Dungeness crabs?

>
> You know, if one of you Dungeness partisans could come up with the
> actual genus and species of the two crabs under discussion, we could
> perhaps agree that they're different crabs with the same common name.
>
> After all, the European robin is Erithacus rubecula while the
> American robin is Turdus migratorius.


And don't get me started about magpies.