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From: jespah@milton.u.washington.edu (Kathleen Hunt)
Subject: Re: Terndy Species Nicknames
Message-ID: <1991Apr18.230929.24136@milton.u.washington.edu>
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
References: <1991Apr18.132518.0820@MEMPHIS.wif.ctt.bellcore.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1991 23:09:29 GMT

In article <1991Apr18.132518.0820@MEMPHIS.wif.ctt.bellcore.com> hammy@ctt.bellcore.com writes:
>BBB : Boring Brown Bird - any as yet unidentified sparrow, fall warbler, etc. 
>			Of course as soon as it's identified it loses the
>			"boring", unless it really is :-)
I've heard this as a more charitable "LBB", for "little brown bird".


-- 
"We found on St. Paul's only two kinds of birds - the booby and the noddy....
Both are of a tame and stupid disposition, and are so unaccustomed to visitors,
that I could have killed any number of them with my geological hammer."
(Charles Darwin)       Kathleen Hunt / jespah@milton.u.washington.edu