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- From: wvenable@algona.stats.adelaide.edu.au (Bill Venables)
- Newsgroups: rec.birds
- Subject: Re: Hooded Pitohui
- Date: 23 Nov 92 12:27:22
- Organization: Department of Statistics, University of Adelaide
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- In-reply-to: andrewt@watson.ibm.com's message of Sun, 22 Nov 1992 16:13:55 GMT
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- >>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Taylor <andrewt@watson.ibm.com> writes:
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- Andrew> I seem to have a credibility problem....
-
- Does anyone remember an hilarious account of the bird known as "The Common
- Hoodwink" (Dissimila spuria, Moriarty)? It's infuriating, but I can only
- remember the name, I can't even remember the context in which I heard it.
- But it was very funny, I can remember that bit...a good one to bamboozle
- your more gullible non-birder friends with.
-
- Andrew> I was filling in the long drive back from birding Cape May with
- Andrew> stories of Australia's array of dangerous fauna. After accounts of
- Andrew> venomous snakes, spiders, fish, molluscs jellyfish, octopuses etc.
- Andrew> (all deadly) ...
-
- After Crocodile Dundee and you forgot the salties? :-)
-
- Andrew> Andrew "de-gauss that pigeon" Taylor
-
- Bill Venables.
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