ON October 26th, 1934, a Razorbill (Alca torda) was sent to the Bird Room of the British Museum, in the flesh, by Mr. John Stilgoe, Chief Engineer of the Hampton Waterworks, who had recovered it from the Littleton Reservoir, where it had been picked up dead along with fourteen others. The bird was sent to us as being a strange and unfamiliar species to the staff of the waterworks. It was handed ov...

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