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Martin & Frances wrote:
"Definitely not a Sasquatch. The peak-back
Yankee's-cap (note hyphenation please) is diagnostic. It is rumored (note
lack of 'u') that the beast is about to emerge from hibernation."
I guess the birds that take the honor (oops, I pick
up spelling trends quickly) of being the avian equivalents of
Sasquatch are the Jacanas aka Lilly Trotters and JC Birds. The latter
sobriquet stems from the way they appear to walk on water.
I once derived great glee from watching an emu
sneak up on a Canadian visitor at a barbeque in Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve and
deftly remove a bread roll from his hand. When he recovered from the shock of
seeing his roll disappear down the neck of the first emu he'd ever seen, he
declared, "That thing is the larval form of Sasquatch!"
John K. Layton
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