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The white feathers about the auriculars and throat seem daily 
increasing 
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_ May 25th, 1818, Mr. Youell tells me that at the same time some 
Tringa islandica were killed, a Tringa squatarola was killed 
which he sent to Mr. Scales. 
The Colymhus auritus was remarkably tame when taken, and 
plumed itself with great composure. The Avosetta has a par- 
ticularly harmless and meek appearance (F. Youell). The stomach 
of the Spoonbill killed in May, 1818, had abundance of Shrimp- 
shells in it. 
Memoranda at end of calf-bound book. 
A female Snowy Owl was sent by Mr. Hornby to Corbett, 
April 6th, 1814. Weight, five and a quarter pounds; length, 
two feet ; breadth, five feet four inches. 
A female Pochard killed July 14th, 1818, was sent by Sir 
Jacob Astley to Corbett. 
Hunt has had two Ked-breasted Snipes killed the beginning of 
August. One now in his possession agrees very nearly with that 
described in Montagu’s ‘ Supplement,’ the length and breadth being 
each half an inch less. The bill is two and three quarter inches 
long ; the tarsus barely two inches. Mr. Martin has got another. 
Hunt’s Fieldfare, killed in June, has a greater number of black 
spots upon the neck and sides than one killed in the autumn, and 
they are of a fuller black. 
There were large flocks of the Bearded Titmice at Burlingham 
in February, 1819, Ht. [Hunt.] Bramblings very abundant in 
the winter of 1818-19. One person shot many dozens of them. 
— Ht. A considerable difference in the bills of the great Snipes 
in length. Two Spoonbills were seen at Cromer in the summer 
of 1818.— Hunt. 
The enlargement in the trachea of the Golden-eye is inflated 
during inspiration and contracted during expiration. — Hunt. 
Mr. Hardy says that the mules between Pheasants and domestic 
fowls carry their tails pointing to the ground like Pheasants, 
