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Take that universally popular caged bird, the budgerigar , first encountered in the inland of New South Wales and known to the colonists from the 1840s.
Indeed along with a slew of native British names that the English colonists transported to America, the traditional biblical names would dominate US birth registers well into the twentieth century.
The city of some 55,000 as it exists today derives much more from the town built by Anglos who have been attracted here since the mid nineteenth century than from the Spanish-Mexican colonists and their descendants who populated the tiny frontier capital for over two centuries previously.
Eastern tribes, for example, used to delight and amaze early colonists with their resonant and evocative names--names that, when translated, turned out to have much of the broad humor and graphic wit of European-style nicknames.
Four hundred years ago these crops brought British colonists to rule the land and African slaves to work it.