Notes

01 June 1969
Comments Notes Little Ringed and Ringed Plovers laying in the same nest For about i£ hours on 15th June 1968, at a gravel pit in Essex, Mrs Gillian Craw and I watched a Little Ringed Plover Charadrius dubius sitting on a nest which contained four eggs of that spec...
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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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