Raymond Korpi wrote,

> > for BUSHTITS,
>
> Watch your language please!! Apparently state agents are running around
> campus seizing people's hard drives looking for pornography. Such a word
> could get me into trouble! (the tone is in jest, but the actions are
> occurring according to a colleague). RK

More years ago than I like to remember, a birder friend and I were taking
biology together in high school. We each had to give an oral report on
some group of birds. He took the chickadees and their relatives, and I
remember him saying that he thought he would just not mention titmice.

Burt Guttman guttmanb at elwha.evergreen.edu
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