Town & Country Notebook
Quiz of the week
1) ‘Quoth' is an old English word meaning what?
2) Congenital talipes equinovarus is more commonly known as what?
3) What is the common name for the mustelid Lutra lutra?
4) In the geological timescale, rank these from smallest to largest: era, epoch, age, eon, period.
5) In the computer-file format PDF, what does the P stand for?
Riddle me this
Which is the only number to contain the same amount of letters as its value?
100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE October 16, 1920
AMONG some species of birds, such as sparrows, starlings and blackbirds,) as shown in the photograph; indeed it is, in all probability, the only one on record. As the photograph shows, it is pure white throughout, without spot or blemish, and is a pure albino, for the eyes are pink and the beak and legs flesh coloured. It was obtained in Ireland, and is the most beautiful albino I have yet seen. —H.
