Notes

01 March 1973 Comments Notes Spotted Crakes taking food from anglers On 26th September 1972, at a gravel pit in Somerset, I was standing near an angler when from time to time I saw a Spotted Crake Porzana porzana emerge from a narrow belt of reeds behind him and start peck...
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Notes

01 July 1942 Comments Notes THE following notes relate to a mimber of species, several of whose Status now appears to differ from that described in H. E. Forrest's Vertebrate Fauna of North Wales (1907) and Handbook to the Vertebrate Fauna of North Wales (1919). Unless otherwise st...
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Notes

01 April 1936 Comments Notes through the kindness of Dr. Tom Hare, Director of the Poultry and Game Research Laboratories, I received a sample of Mallophaga collected from a Blackbird (Turdus m. merula), which was picked up in Dorsetshire. A post mortem examination of the bird showe...
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