VARIOUS NOTES ON BIRDS OF ESSEX. 21 end of January, 1929. The legs and feet are slate-coloured, there is no knob on the upper mandible, the beak is salmon- pink, nostril, tip and edge of beak black and a black triangular patch runs up to the eye. Fig. 1. Swan-Marks of Essex Owners. Swan-marks of Essex Owners (Fig. 1.). The upper five marks were used by their respective owners on the River Thames. Of the three belonging to the Abbots of Stratford the first two are