Bird beginning with X

[brian fleming <>]

To be sure, we need X in the alphabet.  But if there aren't any 
convenient birds which start with X, why not put in X without a bird, 
and just explain that it means the  unknown?  So much we don't know in 
science and birds in particular.  When I was about ten, it was a huge 
eye-opener when I asked a kind marine biologist what animal produced the 
'sausage-blubber' egg-masses I found at the beach - and he said "Nobody 
knows - we haven't seen anything lay them, and we haven't been able to 
rear them in the lab."  So there was something I might find out all on 
my own!  (About 10 years later two amateur malacologists found that the 
parents were Sandsnails - they put one in a tank, and next day it had 
produced the curved gelatinous egg-mass)).
Anthea Fleming
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