Kevin Aanerud's got his pictures back and they are quite good. His
opinion re. chestnut on the nape was that the only chestnut was on the
auricular panel area which might appear to be the nape if the bird's head
were turned a certain way. The pictures don't show any chesnut as far as
I can judge, however the ground color of the face is distinctly chestnut
brown.

Gene.

On Wed, 6 Dec 1995, Scott Ray wrote:

> 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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