Subject: [Tweeters] WWF 1st day covers + new book (SE Asia)
Date: Dec 3 23:44:44 2008
From: vogelfreund at comcast.net - vogelfreund at comcast.net


Well, I have to take back what I said about those 4 Black Woodpecker stamps being unimpressive. I've since looked at them more closely with a magnifying glass, and they are indeed impressive with fine details.

Out of idle curiosity, I ordered the field guide to Southeast Asian Mammmals (Princeton U. Press); mostly because I spent a miserable year in 'nam in 1968/69. It only covers mainland SE Asia, & not the islands. It doesn't really clear up my questions about some shiny black small rats at Pleiku. It just says there's lots of work yet to be done with the classification of the sibling species of the genus Rattus. But the average ecotourist wouldn't be concerned with that problem anyway.

Phil Hotlen
Bellingham, WA
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From: vogelfreund at comcast.net
> Dec 2 '08
>
> I've been subscribed to the Postal Commemorative Society's Worls Wildlife Fund
> first day covers (one per month) for a while now, although I can't afford to
> keep it up forever. There's been a lot of endangered fishes and oceanic
> dwellers that I'm not all that interested in. But today I received an
> interesting batch of four (they always come in batches of four) Black
> Woodpeckers from Serbia. The stamps themselves aren't all that impressive, but
> the illustrations on the envelopes would please any woodpecker lover!
>
> Phil Hotlen
> Bellingham, WA
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