On Mon, 17 Mar 1997 22:12:48 -0000 "Jon. Anderson and Marty Chaney"
<festuca at olywa.net> writes:

>However, this is neither the first or the first documented WETA in the
>=
>fair state of Connecticut....
>
>"The Birds of Connecticut" (State Geological and Natural History
>Survey Bulletin No. 20) written by John Hall Sage, M.S. and Louis
Bennett
>Bishop, M.D. assisted by Walter Parks Bliss M.A. in 1913 states on page
137:
>
>Piranga ludoviciana (Wilson). Western Tanager.
> A young male of this species was collected by H.W. Flint on Fair Haven
>Heights, in New Haven, Dec. 15, 1892. "It is not an escaped bird, as
>the feet and plumage clearly indicate." (Mr Flint's report was from
>the 1893 Auk, Vol X No 1, pg 86 and the 1892 Ornithologist and Oologist
>Vol XVII, 12, pg 187).

I stand corrected. Goes to show, you shouldn't believe everything you
hear, even if the source seems to be a reliable one. Next time, I'll
look it up.

>Now, if you'd just send a Scarlet Tanager OUR way..... :-)

I'd love to oblige. The very next time I see one, I'll offer to pay his
way West! :-)

Cathi Pelletier, Waterbury, CT Heronwing at juno.com
"What fun we had then!
We reveled in sunshine then,
And skinned both our knees."


>
>Now, if you'd just send a Scarlet Tanager OUR way..... :-)
>
>Jon. Anderson
>Olympia, Washington
>festuca at olywa.net
>