Hi Tweets,

I think the terms we're looking for here are parietal and occipital.

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>Chris Hill wrote -
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>I thought the word occipital referred to the back of the head where the
>head attaches to the neck (where the occipital bone is in mammals). When
>you say "anterior occipital bump" and "forward bump" I take it you're
>referring to a different area? That is, if you think of a YBLO head as
>somewhat flat on top, you're talking about the bump at the front of the
>flat area, more or less over the eye? Or did I get it wrong?
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>I am probably wrong about the terminology. Perhaps someone could provide
the correct one. I was referring to the two bumps on the top of the head in
Yellow-billed and Common Loons. The forward bump is often noticeably larger
in males than in females.
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> - Jack Bowling
>jcbowling at mindlink.bc.ca
>Fort Nelson, BC
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