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The Birds of Great Yarmouth and the Neighbourhood, Arthur Patterson, 294. 



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Notes on the Egyptian Jerboa {Dipus jaculus) in Captivity, Graham Benshaw, 

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Obituary, — Eleanor A. Ormerod (with plate), 310. 



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