A colly bird is one that perches on cauliflowers.
T.
At 09:46 16/12/99 +1100, you wrote:
>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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