Chris Slade wrote:
> A hybrid is a mongrel of known and approved parentage.
>
>   
If you mean man's approval, then no. The salamanders in California are 
hybrids even though not approved , nor parentage known at the time of 
their discovery. Their parentage had to be traced.

The definitions of both are nearly identical so one man's hybrid is 
another's mongrel. All depends on how much you are willing to pay for 
the product. Both infer a mixed race. Mongrels just have more of them 
until they become distinct and become a new breed. Then they are "pure" 
and can have hybrids instead of mongrels.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

******************************************************
* Full guidelines for BEE-L posting are at:          *
* http://www.honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/guidelines.htm  *
******************************************************