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01 January 1939 Comments Notes IN winter flocks of Snow-Buntings (Pledrophenax n. nivalis) frequent the summits and higher slopes of the mountains of the Lake District. Counts of these have frequently exceeded fifty birds; the largest counted was one of 117. I have seen a flock on the...
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01 March 1938 Comments Notes I HAVE paid particular attention to the singing of Crossbills (Loxia c. curvirostra) for some years, on and off, and I find that the song can be divided into four main varieties. In attempting to describe these songs below, I use the two sound descriptio...
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01 August 1937 Comments Notes "--As many ornithologists are already aware a new edition of A Practical Handbook of British Birds has been for some time in preparation. We should be very grateful to any of our readers who would now send us notes of any omissions or errors in the origin...
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01 December 1936 Comments Notes THE Scandinavian Jackdaw (Colasus m. monedula) has only recently been definitely added to the British List, and the only positive examples recorded hitherto were two from Suffolk by Dr. C. B. Ticehurst (cf. antea, Vol. XXVIII, p. 90). It is therefore of ...
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01 August 1936 Comments Notes A NEST of a Carrion-Crow (Corvus c. corone) in a willow tree in Walland Marsh, Kent, had a clutch of eggs which was taken on April 12th, 1936. On May 17th, the nest contained another clutch of eggs which were exactly like the first. The nest did not appe...
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01 July 1936 Comments Notes CROSSBILLS' METHOD OF FEEDING, A NOTE in the June number of British Birds (Vol. XXX., p. 27) by B. D. Moreton, tempts me to carry the observations a little farther by publishing a few notes made as long ago as 1888 on the method of feeding of some Crossbi...
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01 April 1936 Comments Notes through the kindness of Dr. Tom Hare, Director of the Poultry and Game Research Laboratories, I received a sample of Mallophaga collected from a Blackbird (Turdus m. merula), which was picked up in Dorsetshire. A post mortem examination of the bird showe...
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01 March 1935 Comments Notes I SPENT the months August-November (inclusive), 1934, on holiday at Salcombe, south Devon. Most of my time was engaged in bird-observing, and the following notes may be of interest:-- CUCKOO (Cuculus c. canorus).--One was calling strongly on Bolt Head, e...
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01 February 1935 Comments Notes FOR the last few years I have examined a number of Jays killed in Essex, in the hope of finding the Continental form. On November 22nd, 1934, one, a female, was shot at Longwood, Layer Marney, Essex, which had the lower mantle and back greyer than usual....
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01 December 1934 Comments Notes DURING the last week in May, 1934, a pair of Spotted Flycatchers (Muscicapa s. striata) built a nest in a cleft of a climbing rose tree growing against the wall of our house in Norfolk. On May 31st this nest contained four eggs, which were taken. On June...
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