Birdy gurdy.I was surprised to read nothing about the timing of the songs when the birds are separated by distance ("Just Duet: Biologists puzzle over Verb 1. puzzle over - try to solve cerebrate, cogitate, think - use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments; "I've been thinking all day and getting nowhere" birds' ensemble vocalizations," SN: 1/28/06, p. 58). The ABCD See CompTIA. duet would become A--BC--D (where the dashes represent the time delay due to distance) to the male and AB--CD to the female. The duet could be a distance-measurement tool for pairs wanting to keep track of how far apart they are. JOE HEAGNEY, ARLINGTON, WASH. When I read the article, the behavior of my pet yellow-naped Amazon The Yellow-naped Parrot or Yellow-naped Amazon (Amazona auropalliata) is an Amazon parrot now more usually considered to be a subspecies of Yellow-crowned Amazon, Amazona ochrocephala (Gmelin, 1788). , Wellington, suddenly became less surprising. He often likes to whistle the four phrases of "How Much Is that Doggie in the Window?" However, sometimes he indicates, by pausing after phrase A, that he wants me to whistle phrase B. He then whistles phrase C and pauses for me to whistle phrase D. Other times, if I whistle phrases A and C, he whistles phrases B and D. ANDREA BORR, LA JOLLA La Jolla (lə hoi`yə), on the Pacific Ocean, S Calif., an uninc. district within the confines of San Diego; founded 1869. The beautiful ocean beaches, in particular La Jolla shores and Black's Beach, and sea-washed caves attract visitors and , CALIF. In the wild, yellow-naped Amazon par7vts perform duets in which a male and a female take turns calling, says Timothy Wright of New Mexico State University New Mexico State University, at Las Cruces; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered and opened 1889 as a college. It became New Mexico State Univ. of Engineering, Agriculture, and Science in 1958 and adopted its present name in 1960. in Las Cruces.--S. MILIUS |
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