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From: gpasq@picuxa.UUCP (Greg Pasquariello X1190)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Rufous, Ruth, and Saw-whet owls (was Re: What does "flamulated" mean?)
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Date: 16 Jan 89 14:38:00 GMT
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Reply-To: gpasq@picuxa.UUCP (Greg Pasquariello X1190)
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In article <1264@infinet.UUCP> thebaut@infinet.UUCP (Suzanne Thebaut) writes:
-In article <486@deimos.cis.ksu.edu> hansen@harris.cis.ksu.edu (Steve Hansen) writes:
->from Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary Unabridged, 1979:
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->  flammulated: having a red tinge; ruddy: said of the plumage of birds
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-While we are (sort of) on the subject:
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-What color is 'rufous' (sp?)..???
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-Is it brown, reddish brown, what?
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-Thanks.
-
---Suzanne.


Rufous is a reddish brown, like the sides of a rufous-sided towhee.  Rufous
is also the "pet" name of my wife Ruth :-).

By the way, rufous is also the color of the streaking on the two saw-whet
owls my friend and I found at Jamaica Bay this weekend.  One was perched
only four feet away, at eye level, and looked like a small gnome.

Greg
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