NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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of sex, which is probably determined before the egg is laid, as it is difficult 

 to suppose that the process of incubation can determine sex. 



Species. 



Weight in 

 grammes. 



Mean 

 Weight. 



Specific 

 Gravity. 



Mean 

 Sp. Gr. 



Turdus merula 



6-798 



6-738 



6-705 



5-197 



2-281 



2-621 



2-366 



2-084 



2-157 



3-956 



3-935 



2-052 



2-065 



1-555 



1-H17 



24-725 



24-059 



22-864 



23-483 



24-046 



26-847 



27-328 



27-449 



6-747 



2-493 



2-120 







3-945 

 2-058 

 1-586 



25-100 



1-0450 

 1-0435 

 1-0536 

 1-0400 

 1-0560 

 1-0484 

 1-0501 

 1-0251 

 1-0271 

 1-0318 

 1-0266 

 1-0402 

 1-0335 

 1-0668 

 1-0561 

 1-0750 

 10240 

 1-0650 











1-0477 



Turdus musicus 





Chloris cJiloris 





Emberiza citrinella 







1-0492 



Emheriza schoeniclus 







1-0261 



Alauda arvensis 







1-0292 



Sirundo rustica 







1-0368 



Si/lvia Sylvia 







1-0614 



Vanellus vanelhis 











1-0547 



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Herbert Fortescue Fryer (The Priory, Chatteris). 

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Weights of Birds. — The following birds were shot in Sussex, Kent, or 

 Berkshire, and weighed by me in the flesh ; so that I can answer for the 

 weights being correctly enumerated. Nearly all the rarer species belong 

 to me, and are now being exhibited at the Reading Museum : — 



1894. — May 5th. Dunlins, 1 oz. 1 drachm ; 1 oz. 2 drachms ; 1 oz. 

 6 drachms. 



July 1st. Avocet, 9^ oz. 3rd. lOi oz. 



Aug. 520th. Crossbill, \\ oz. 



Sept. 13th. Oystercatcher, 1 lb, ; Knot, 4 oz. 17th. Merlin, 7 oz. 

 1 drachm. 



Oct. 22nd. 

 female), 2^ lb. 



Nov. JOih. 



Dec. 27th. 



Sheldrake (young), 2 lb. 6 oz. 28th. Peregrine (immature 



Shoveller (male), 1 lb. 3 oz. 16th. Avocet, 9 oz. 

 Merganser (female), 1 lb. 10 oz. 31st. Great Northern 

 Diver (starved, immature), 6 lb. 



1895.— Jan. 7th. Norfolk Plover, 1 lb. 5^ oz. 23rd. Wild Duck, 2 lb. ; 

 ditto (female), 2 lb. 2 oz. 16th. Little Auk, 4 oz. 



