Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 14:18:47 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Janet Millenson Subject: Re: Bird Quotes: Re: MDOSPREY Digest - 12 Feb 2004 to 13 Feb 2004 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Chris Starling wrote: >How does one pronounce "Phainalyxia"....Maybe a better question would >be How >does one spell it? Chris, I think you've created an accidental hybrid of Phainopepla (fine-uh-PEP-luh, according to the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary) and Pyrrhuloxia (apparently too arcane for the SOED, but I'd go with peer-uh-LOX-ee-uh). Laura apparently saw a Phainopepla. Janet Millenson Potomac, MD (Montgomery County) janet@twocrows.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- "Look at the birds!" -- Pascal the parrot ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================