Letters

01 July 1990 Comments Letters Snipe with upturned bill. The recent interesting note by Paul D. Morris (Brit. Birds 83: 117, plate 67) recalls a similar instance, involving an incubating female Snipe Gallinago gallinago with an upcurved bill which I photographed in Cumbria (the...
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Letter

01 July 1946 Comments Letters SIRS,---The statement (antea, p. 58) of Fr. Haverschmidt t h a t " I t seems that field observations are inadequate on this point, at least in Great Britain " is an injustice to British ornithology and ornithologists. As far back as 1896 there is evidence...
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