Talk:passerine

This probably needs to be moved to upper case. While one can argue for 'passerine' as a common English noun, the taxonomical bits trump it.--Allamakee Democrat 04:27, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

According to the Random House Dictionary of the English Language, passerine and passeriform are ordinary adjectives and are not capitalized. The order itself is, of course, capitalied: Passeriformes. The adjective passerine means of or pertaining to the order Passeriformes. The adjective passerine is on the order of asinine and leonine ... no cap needed. —Stephen 04:46, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Both passerine and passeriform are used in lower case form, the former since 1825. (OED) Dbfirs 13:59, 28 February 2009 (UTC)