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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Notes

01 February 1935 Comments Notes FOR the last few years I have examined a number of Jays killed in Essex, in the hope of finding the Continental form. On November 22nd, 1934, one, a female, was shot at Longwood, Layer Marney, Essex, which had the lower mantle and back greyer than usual....
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