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From: dmark@acsu.Buffalo.EDU (David Mark)
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Subject: Re: Observing threatened/endangered species
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Date: 3 Feb 90 02:27:14 GMT
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In article <1990Feb2.172032.4608@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> rcb33483@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Kehaar) writes:
>
>     Recently a friend of mine related a story about a group of birders in New
>Mexico that chased a Black Rail, literally, down the gullet of a Great Egret.

  I know this is off the main point of the posting but, what was a Black
  Rail doing in New Mexico in the first place?  The Sixth A.O.U. Check-List
  doesn't include New Mexico in its range, not does the old western
  Peterson guide.

  David Mark
  dmark@cs.buffalo.edu