Yes congrats to Harvey, well done!
But what is a 'coli bird', as the Winner calls it, aka colly-bird as in
http://www.aimsedu.org/puzzle/twelveDays/song.html :
'On the fourth day of Christmas my true love sent to me four colly-birds,
three French hens, two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree.'
David
John Gamblin wrote:
> Well done to Harvey Perkins your T shirt will be
> posted to you tomorrow first thing ......
>
> Hmmmmm now to make it really hard? a sporting bird
> question I think?
>
> <> wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 15:44:28 +1100
> > To: John Gamblin <>
> > From: Harvey Perkins <>
> > Subject: Re: birding-aus Christmas Contest number 3
> > ....
> >
> > John,
> >
> > Depending on whether you are talking about numbers
> > of individual birds or
> > numbers of species...
> >
> > 1a How many birds are mentioned in this song?
> >
> > There are 6 species mentioned:
> > Swans (7)
> > Geese (6)
> > Calling (coli) birds (4)
> > French Hens (3)
> > Turtledoves (2)
> > Partridge (1)
> >
> > ie 23 birds
> >
> > (And I hope you don't want the total number referred
> > to once you have
> > repeated them each time you go up to the twelth
> > day!!!)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 1b Which bird lived in the pear tree?
> >
> > The Partridge
> >
> >
> >
> > c. And how many calling hens were there?
> >
> > None, they were French hens (but there were four
> > calling birds)
> >
> >
> >
> > Merry Christmas,
> >
> > Harvey
> >
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