> Ray Korpi "Nearby, on the trunk of a high barkless cottonwood*,
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> Hm: Portland, OR a flicker with ungodly ease**
> Wk: Clark College is defying gravity***,
> Vancouver, WA the crescent of red on its busy nape****
> rkorpi at clark.edu the only color in all the world it could be*****."
> --William Kloefkorn, from _Platte_Valley_Homestead_, #49

Like Sherrie, I enjoy your quotes, Ray. But just think what would happen
if an ornithologist got hold of this piece of literature late on a Friday
afternoon.

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* Clearly a dead tree, a common substrate for woodpecker foraging.....
** Of course, this makes sense in an evolutionary entity.....
*** This hypothesis remains to be tested further.....
**** The nape lies posterior to the crown.....
***** Unless it was some other kind of flicker (of which there are
several)......

Dennis Paulson, Director phone: (206) 756-3798
Slater Museum of Natural History fax: (206) 756-3352
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