In a message dated 10/31/2002 7:01:44 PM Mountain Standard Time, NJ-MEMORIES-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > You got that wrong. The mosquito is the state bird of La. Oh . . . what happened to the brown pelican? Overstuffed on fish? When I was out in Michigan last May, I was informed that the 'skeeter was the official bird of that fair state. Dunno . . . I never saw any while I was there, and there sure were plenty in Nutley when I was growing up. And sometimes our kids looked as if they had the chicken pox after they'd been in the yard for a while in Denville . . . Doris in Colorado (Up2Nutrix@aol.com) "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." -- Jim Elliot, missionary and martyr