Notes

01 February 1962
Comments Notes British-ringed Manx Shearwater recovered in Australia,--The Bird Ringing Committee of the British Trust for Ornithology has received a letter dated 22nd November 1961, which reports that the feathers and bones of a sea-bird "black or dark on top with whit...
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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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