Snipe with abnormal bill.--On 25Ü1 July 1956, at Crook, near Kendal, Westmorland, I took a photograph (see plate 16) of a female Snipe (Capella gallinago) with an up-curved bill. The bird was incubating four eggs in a grass tussock in low-lying, swampy ground about 75 yards from a small reservoir: I first saw the nest on 23rd July. Apartfrom being up-curved, the bird's bill seemed quite normal e...

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