Subject: Four-letter abbreviations
Date: May 2 11:42:32 2000
From: Michael Dossett - phainopepla at yahoo.com


--- Jim McCoy <jfmccoy at earthlink.net> wrote:

> P.s. -- I got my life MGWA on the walk to work
> yesterday morning, sans
> binoculars.


WOW!!!

A Magnolia Warbler!?!?! WHY ISN'T IT ON THE BIRDBOX
YET?!?

Actually, this was my first reaction...until I figured
out that by MGWA you meant MacGillivray's Warbler, my
mistake. But Magnolia's have hoods and incomplete
eye-rings (males) and even some yellow on the breast
too. I think everyone can see the problem with
abbreciations now.

Michael Dossett
Bothell
Phainopepla at yahoo.com

> It was up close, so I could easily see the hood and
> bright yellow breast,
> and I could even
> make out the incompleteness of the eye ring. (I
> threw in the ID details as
> context for
> those who were having trouble with the
> abbreviation.)
>
> P.p.s. -- Are the use of my initials, "P.s.",
> "P.p.s.", and "ID" acceptable?
>
>
> Jim McCoy
> jfmccoy at earthlink.net
> Redmond, WA
>
>
>

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