Lisa, I've seen that term several times, I guess in one or more of those
books that tell about an exaltation of larks or a brace of teals or a
gaggle of geese. I think they are what we would call "archaic," but
whenever I see such things I get the immediate urge to make up my own, like
a sneak of snipes or a probe of dunlins or a persistence of jaegers. I had
better not go on....

By the way, if you didn't "draw" the dragonfly, where did you get it? Is it
copyrighted? I want to acquire it to send to my dragonfly buddies from time
to time--maybe we can start a whole new genre of biological illustrating
with brackets and dashes!

Dennis Paulson