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From: JAHAYES@MIAMIU.BITNET
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Subject: Re: Flycatchers
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Date: 1 Sep 90 16:33:01 GMT
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And a big "Ole`!" to the flame war....
 
But wrt a couple of book questions and the Daan Sandee response about
west coast flycatchers, all mentioning the term "jizz". I had never
run across this term before, guess that shows that I haven't done any
birding on other continents (depending on where you think Panama is).
Is this term an extraction from the German word "gestalt", as in
Gestalt Psychology? I think as such that's a good description of the
way some initially difficult birds become easier to i.d., because
it just looks like one...(how do you know that's a Wood-Pewee? Well,
it just looks like one).
 
And, sigh, about the flame war. It probably makes no difference to
me, as I think I'll have a new job in about a month and they have
no net access :-(, but I guess I'd still say everybody just calm down.
Indoor folks, put "indoor" in your title, although I must say any
reasonably descriptive title ought to be sufficient; I mean, how many
birders can't tell that an article about "food for my budgie" is of
the indoor persuasion?
 
Josh Hayes, Zoology Department, Miami University, Oxford OH 45056
voice: 513-529-1679      fax: 513-529-6900
jahayes@miamiu.bitnet, or jahayes@miamiu.acs.muohio.edu
It goes in, it must come out. [Testicle's deviant to Fudd's
first law of opposition.]