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Mah Jongg Tile Set Description
Tile Set Name: BIRDSNAM.TIL
Subject: Birds of North America
Created by: Jean Hoffman
Description:
The Birds of North American are an obvious choice for a set of tiles to
represent my interests in birding and art. The nearly 900 species recorded
north of Mexico contain a wide variety from the most subtly elegant to the
most flamboyant. I have attempted to illustrate this spectrum and have
tried to provide birds from all around our sub-continent.
This tile set uses direct substitution for the original Chinese tile suites.
Within suites the birds are arranged in taxonomic sequence and not by a
visual rationale. In this case, the suites have been directly substituted
with other suites as follows:
Water Birds (mostly black and white) (replaces suit of dots):
1) Common Loon Gavia immer
2) Anhinga Anhinga anhinga
3) Black-crowned Night-Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
4) Common Goldeneye Bucephala clangula
5) Black-bellied Plover Pluvialis squatarola
6) Black-necked Stilt Himantopus mexicanus
7) Laughing Gull Larus atricilla
8) Black Skimmer Rynchops niger
9) Tufted Puffin Fratercula cirrhata
Wood Warblers (partly yellow) (replaces suit of bamboo):
11) Golden-winged Warbler Vermivora chrysoptera
12) Northern Parula Parula americana
13) Yellow Warbler Dendroica petechia
14) Townsend's Warbler Dendroica townsendi
15) Mourning Warbler Oporornis philadelphia
16) Common Yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas
17) Hooded Warbler Wilsonia citrina
18) Canada Warbler Wilsonia canadensis
19) Olive Warbler Peucedramus taeniatus
Yard & Garden Birds (a cast of "characters") (replaces suit of characters):
21) Northern Flicker Colaptes auratus
22) Steller's Jay Cyanocitta stelleri
23) Chestnut-backed Chickadee Parus rufescens
24) Carolina Wren Thryothorus ludovicianus
25) Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis
26) Rose-breasted Grosbeak Pheuticus ludovicianus
27) Yellow-headed Blackbird Xanthrocephalus xanthrocephalus
28) Orchard Oriole Icterus spurius
29) House Finch Carpodacus mexicanus
Birds of Prey (replaces dragons):
10) Osprey Pandion haliaetus
20) Golden Eagle Aquila chrysaetos
30) Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
Birds with Unusual Bills (replaces suit of winds):
31) American White Pelican Pelecanus erythrorhynchos
32) White Ibis Eudocinus albus
33) Roseate Spoonbill Ajaia ajaja
34) Greater Flamingo Phoenecopterus ruber
Bird Eggs (replaces suit of seasons):
35) Crested Caracara Polyborus plancus
egg large, mottled, rusty color
36) Common Murre Uria aalge
egg large, pyriform, scrawled
37) Gray Catbird Dumetella carolinensis
egg plain, lovely blue
38) Dark-eyed Junco Junco hyemalis
egg small, glossy white wreathed with rich reddish
Hummingbirds at Flowers (replaces suit of flowers):
39) Broad-billed Hummingbird Cynanthus latirostris
40) Blue-throated Hummingbird Lampornis clemenciae
41) Calliope Hummingbird Stellula calliope
42) Rufous Hummingbird Selasphorus rufus
Because this set uses seven different background colors, it may be easiest
to select a contrasting background color for play. I find color #6
(red-brown) very satisfactory. However, the Hummingbird/flower
tiles are bright enough that the default dark blue background plays
well even though those four tiles have the same ground color. I hope the
challenge of this set appeals to birders and non-birders alike.
June 19, 1994.