It lays in May and June, placing its shallow cup-shaped nest in some little fork near the top of a moderate-sized oak-tree, if breeding on a mountain-side, but of some tall Alnus nipalensis, Acacia elata, or acer oblongum, if nesting in deep dells or valleys.
"The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1"
Allan O. Hume
Do you really and truly believe that the Herulian Odo, surnamed acer by the Romans, and known to us by the name of Odoacer, had only Herulians in his train, and that Genseric conducted Vandals alone into Africa?
"A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 5 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version""
François-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire) Commentator: John Morley Tobias Smollett H.G. Leigh
Aesculape shares the opinion of acer.
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos