At 07:36 PM 3/24/98 -0800, you wrote:

>If I see $800 binoculars around the asker's neck, I get afraid they are
Listers (with
>a capital "L"), and the mention of a non-italicized bird will be met with
>contempt. >

Ouch, Michael!! There are lots of us out there with good/expensive binocs
who aren't Listers, per se. And we like both italicized and non-italicized
birds!

Diann MacRae
Bothell
tvulture at halcyon.com