Seventy-five years ago

01 April 1990 Comments Other 'The two tapering central tail-feathers in Richardson's Skua project about three inches, those in the Pomatorhine about four inches, and those in Buffon's about seven or eight inches, but in Richardson's we find them rarely, if ever, broken, seldom in ...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 October 1985 Comments Other 'FOOD OF THE COMMON HERON, In a note on this subject (antea, p. 85), Dr. C, B. Ticehurst states that he found several shrimps turned quite pink by the digestive process in the stomach of a Heron about a week old," (Brit, Birds $: 153, October 1910)...
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