At 01:43 PM 12/5/95 -0800, you wrote:
>
>Hi Tweets,
>
>Welcome back Dennis. Regarding the longspur, I saw it the morning
>Russell did, with a few others. Once Russell pointed out the 'collar' to
>me, I could see it also, and others remarked that they saw it. So
>Dennis, you may be right. Maybe my seeing the collar was a result of
>Russell showing me it.

I watched the bird for 20 minutes at close range and had no impression of a
chestnutish collar.

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