17282: Jay: Re: 17277: Fuller: question on "Colobri"

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Jepiem@aol.com
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Colobri, the original creole, is the name of a tiny bird with green
plummage
seen in the fields in Haiti. It is a bit bigger than a hummingbird. Why
someone
is given the nickname of Colobri or colibri I do not know. I must say that
during my trips to Haiti for the last twenty years or so, I haven't seen a
single one of these birds. Like everything else in Haiti, decent humans
included, it has become a disappearing species if not completely extinct.
Mat Jay