When asked by another SUNBIRD leader if I would prepare his next Monthly Marathon solution, owing to his busy tour schedule, my first reaction was `not a problem'. My second reaction, on seeing the photograph, was `me and my big mouth!' The bird in Monthly Marathon photo number 212 (Brit. Birds 97: plate 381, repeated here as plate 87) looks a nightmare to identify. I would like to say that there is

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