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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Letters

01 February 1947 Comments Letters SIRS,--With reference to Colonel Ryves's note (antea, Vol. xxxix, p. 375} oa a clutch of two eggs only, of the Blackbird (Turdus »». merula), I wish to point out that this number of eggs for a full clutch is not extremely abnormal. I cannot but thin...
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