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 January 1951 Comments Notes ON March 23rd, 1947, I observed a presumed male Rook (Corvus fmgilegus) attempting coition on the ground with a presumed female of the same species. The rookery was about 50 yards away.ON,April 4th, 1949, at Little Plumstead, Norfolk, two Rooks were pres...
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