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Title: British birds
Identifier: britishbirds219081909lond (find matches)
Year: 1907 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London, Witherby & Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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170 BRITISH BIRDS. April 21st, and the third on the 22nd, these I did not see until after they had been mounted. These are the first of this common American species that have been killed in Kent, and bring up the British-
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Killdeer Plover, shot near Lydd, Kent, on April 21st, 1908. taken examples to six. One is now in the collection of Mr. J. B. Nichols, and a second in that of Mr. C. J. ' Carroll. N. F. TlCEHURST. (We are much indebted to Mr. J. B. Nichols for the loan of his specimen, and for the permission to reproduce the accompanying photograph of it.—Eds.) SOLITARY SANDPIPER IN KENT. With reference to the Duchess of Bedford's note in the last number of British Birds (p. 136), the Solitary Sandpiper was shot by a visitor at Littlestone, and therefore at no great distance from w^here she saw it on August 15th. Mr. Bristow received it two days later, and kindly brought it to me in the flesh. From its condition it had evidently passed unrecognised, and it looked as though it had been shaken up in a " game "

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