Subject: [Tweeters] White Chickadees
Date: Oct 16 14:55:27 2006
From: dave templeton - crazydave65 at inbox.com


goes to show beauty is in the ear of the beholder. a hard c sounds affected to my ear. i note the turkey people in missouri govt have another term, to wit:

Color Phases

The wild turkey has three distinct color variations from normal plumage coloration: melanistic (black), erythritic (red), and albinotic (white). Recessive genes or mutations account for the color abnormalities. These color variations occur infrequently with the white or smoky-grey phase being the most common. More than 95% of the reported observations of white turkeys are hens. These hens are native wild turkeys and are capable of producing offspring that are partially white, normal colored, or a mix of partially white and normal colored birds within the same brood.

http://www.mdwfp.com/wildlifeissues/articles.asp?vol=7&article=89

Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks (MDWFP)

albinotic smacks to me of a major affliction of some sort, and erythritic should have something to do with creaky joints.

the aol agrees by implication leucistic is the correct term, or so i opine based upon the following statement regarding the happenings in one of their chat rooms:

the aol refers to:

the differences between albino, leucistic and melanistic plumage, and information about an upcoming Eagle-Watch in Indiana round out a fine chat.

http://hometown.aol.com/birdinglinks/BeaklyNewsArchive/2004/beakly040121.html


having taken pains to offend everyone,

i remain,

very truly yours,

m. david templeton
fall city

crazydave65atinboxdotcom


> -----Original Message-----
> From: beaux at u.washington.edu
> Sent: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 13:52:50 -0400
> To: reganw at rockisland.com, dcanning at zhonka.net, tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Subject: Re: [Tweeters] White Chickadees
>
>
>
> It appears that both forms are acceptable -Leucistic, with a hard
> c,
> sounds better.
>
> Bill Kaufman
> Woodinville, WA
>
>
> on 10/16/06 5:31 PM, Mark Wensnahan at reganw at rockisland.com wrote:
>
>> You might check out the article at Wikipedia
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucistic
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
>>
>> At 10/16/2006, Douglas Canning wrote:
>>> On 16 Oct 2006 at 10:48, Julia Allen, PhD, DVM wrote:
>>>
>>>> Trying to get the definition of the word used to describe the white
>>>> Black-capped Chickadees - leucastic/leucistic/lecistic - various
>>>> spellings of the word have appeared in postings.
>>>>
>>>> Merriam-Webster OnLine lists the word "leucitic" from the word
>>>> leucite, a white or grey mineral (none of the other spellings were
>>>> found.)
>>>>
>>>> If this is not the correct spelling, please advise.
>>>
>>> The correct spelling is, I believe, leucistic.
>>>
>>> The "leuc-" combining form is defined (in part) as "1. white:
>>> colorless: weakly colored. (Webster's 7th New Collegiate Dictionary)
>>>
>>> Leucistic itself is not defined even in Webster's unabridged
>>> dictionary. It seems to be a biological term.
>>>
>>> My interpretation from the previous discussion of this on Tweeters is
>>> that, ornithologically, leucistic is used to describe a bird with pale
>>> to nearly white plumage, in whole or in part.
>>>
>>> This compares with the term albino which describes an individual with
>>> abnormally all white plumage (or fur) and generally red eyes.
>>>
>>> Be interesting to see what other definitions we come up with.
>>>
>>> Doug
>>>
>>> *******************
>>> Douglas Canning
>>> Olympia, Washington
>>> dcanning at zhonka.net
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>>>
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>> Ballard/Seattle
>> reganw at rockisland.com
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