Subject: Puzzle help
Date: Dec 6 21:51:41 2001
From: Dan Logen - pdl at whidbey.net


Here is the message from earlier in the year
Dan Logen
Stanwood


David,

"Murder of Crows" is just one of hundreds of such terms in use hundreds of
years ago by the English hunting set. More information and links can be
read at:

http://www.bcpl.net/~tross/gnlist.html

Diane Yorgason-Quinn
Gig Harbor, WA
Avosetta at hotmail.com



>
>Greetings. This may have already been answered in the past but I was
>wondering if anyone knows the origin of the phrase "murder of crow."
>
>I have read "A "murder" of crows is based on the persistent but fallacious
>folk tale that crows form tribunals to judge and punish the bad behavior of
>a member of the flock. If the verdict goes against the defendant, that bird
>is killed (murdered) by the flock."
>
>Any thoughts would be rather splendid.
>
>Cheers,
>David Williams
>Seattle
>


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----- Original Message -----
From: Nladenbe at aol.com
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 9:37 PM
Subject: Puzzle help


Hi all,

Hopefully, someone of you can tell me the answers. A friend has asked me
what a "group" of the following birds are called. She is working a
crossword puzzle and needs help. The numbers in parenthesis are the number
of letters in the word needed. I know there was a discussion earlier on
these but I failed to make copies. Out of all these birds I was only able
to help her with one Geese = Gaggle.

Crows (6) 1st is M, 4th is D
Pheasants (7) ends in T
Larks (10) ends in S
Owls (10) 5th is I
Woodpeckers (7) 2nd is N, 3rd is S, 5th is D

Thanks in advance.

Nancy Ladenberger
Kingston, WA
nladenbe at aol.com