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MAY I say, in defence of Dr. Gerald Leighton (see p. 625), that on two occasions I have found mice inside grass snakes. The first case was on a moor near Parkstone, Dorset, where on opening a smallish snake we found a mouse only partly digested. The other case occurred here last year, when I found a small shrew in a large grass snake. Also with regard to them swallowing birds, I have three times found birds inside them. In each case they were young ones; two were probably young larks (they were both in one snake), and the other was a young robin.
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ROGERS, C. Food of Grass Snakes. Nature 65, 31 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/065031c0
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