I heard from sixteen others about my rant on the names of Ohio localities, especially those for birding, and we more or less agree the most picturequely-named Ohio birding spot has to be Funk Bottoms. I had overlooked this obvious fact. I believe it deserves inclusion in the best-of list I offered from other states and provinces. I was wrong to say there are no township names used only once in Ohio. Two were offered to me, both good ones: Put-in-Bay (Ottawa Co.), and Pee Pee (Pike Co.). Any state would be proud to have these. Certainly the latter continues a thread of potty humor in such appellations. Several people sent amusing names of roads and villages. A resident of Adams County sent the longest list, from his neck of the woods: "Catbird, Whippoorwill, Jaybird, Seaman, Peebles, Panhandle, Squirreltown, Tranquility, Bacon Flats, Lynx, and Sunshine. If you include 'hollers' we got Soldier's Run, Owl Hollow, Mouth Hollow, Long Lick, Puntenny Hollow and Moon Hollow." At least one of these, Panhandle, ranks high in Ohio ornithological history, as the location of our only record--and the farthest inland in N. America--of a northern lapwing, fourteen years ago. So rejoice: there are some tasty nuts in the plain-vanilla list of Ohio place names. Bill Whan Clummus ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]