Notes

01 May 1960
Comments Notes Broken e g g s i n nests of Sparrowhawk.--I can add two records to Dr. D . A. Ratcliffe's list (Brit. Birds, 53: 128-129) of broken eggs of Sparrowhawks (Accipiter nisus), one of them showing that the phenomenon goes back some time. On 7th June 1927, near...
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Letters

01 May 1959
Comments Letters T H E I N F L U X O F P H A L A R O P E S IN A U T U M N 1957 S I R S , -- I wish to correct two errors which unfortunately appeared in the paper on the above subject by myself and Bernard King (antea, p p . 33-42). In the introduction on page 33 the reco...
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Notes

01 February 1957
Comments Notes Snipe with abnormal bill.--On 25Ü1 July 1956, at Crook, near Kendal, Westmorland, I took a photograph (see plate 16) of a female Snipe (Capella gallinago) with an up-curved bill. The bird was incubating four eggs in a grass tussock in low-lying, swampy...
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