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From: thebaut@infinet.UUCP (Suzanne Thebaut)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: What does "flamulated" mean?
Message-ID: <1264@infinet.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jan 89 19:21:43 GMT
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Reply-To: thebaut@infinet.UUCP (Suzanne Thebaut)
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In article <486@deimos.cis.ksu.edu> hansen@harris.cis.ksu.edu (Steve Hansen) writes:
>from Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary Unabridged, 1979:
>
>  flammulated: having a red tinge; ruddy: said of the plumage of birds

While we are (sort of) on the subject:

What color is 'rufous' (sp?)..???

Is it brown, reddish brown, what?

Thanks.

--Suzanne.