> In a message dated 4/12/99 7:20:41 AM Eastern Daylight Time, > bteetz@dc.jones.com writes: > > << LYL - Light Yellow Lexus (Lesser Yellowlegs) > RLH - Real Loud Horn (Rough Legged Hawk) > LBBG - Little Bitty Bird, Green (Lesser Black Backed Gull) > RND - Red Necked Dogwalker (Ya got me!) > WCS - White Crested Skiier (White Crowned Sparrow) > SCJU - Dark Eyed Junco??? >> > > Y G T A! > > GF > R, MD Hate to be a pain, but according to Bird Brain, a database program that I don't recommend unless you have a Macintosh: LYL = African Broadbill, Smithornis capensis. The Lesser Yellowlegs is LEYE RLH = Dodson's Bulbul, Picnonotus dodsoni; the Rough-legged Hawk is RLHA RND = Yellow-necked Greenbul, Chlorocichla falkensteini WCS = no such bird; White-crowned Sparrow is WCSP SCJU = no such bird; Dark-eyed Junco is DEJU It's not completely clear from the documentation that the three-letter codes for foreign birds are universal. Update on Ellen Paul's quiz -- the four North American birds whose scientific names match CACA, are NOCA, CWWI, REKN, and CAQU. Each should be easy to figure out. Try it -- it's good practice. The first time someone used GWFG on me in an e-mail, I couldn't think what it was other than Glaucous-winged f***ing Gull (he's on the west coast, and we used to watch gulls together). Seriously. Sometimes they just don't spring to mind. Doug Couchman atakdoug@csonline.net Cooperstown, PA