Spears/peckers

[Grant Barrett]

On Jan 16, 2007, at 01:15, Douglas G. Wilson wrote:

> I can't find "whickerbill" [bird] right now. Where is it covered, I
> wonder?

I think you're right. I never did find an instance of a bird called a
whickerbill, or any variant of it, except for one or two jocular
references, like this one:

http://www.dtww.org/index.php/citations/wickerbill_12/

Grant Barrett
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