Notes

01 November 2004 Comments Notes In 1999, I kept watch on the single pair of Great Crested Grebes Podiceps cristatus which nested on Lacock Gravel-pits, Wiltshire. The grebes were present at the site from early February, with eggs incubated during March and three young hatched in early A...
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Letter

01 October 1931 Comments Letters SIRS,--Anomalous eggs of t h e type of which t h e accompanying photograph is an example, although of course well known, are of sufficient interest to warrant publication. The present specimen, for which I am indebted to Dr. P. MansonBahr, was laid by a d...
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Review

01 October 1931 Comments Reviews The Literature of the Charadriiformes from 1894 to 1928. By G. Carmichael Low. 2nd Ed., revised and enlarged, pp. xiv. 637. (Witherby.) 12s. 6d. net. 1931. D R . LOW has rendered a great service to ornithology by attempting a herculean task, and if the re...
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Notes

01 October 1931 Comments Notes --Ringers are reminded that all schedules with lists of birds they have ringed during the season should now be sent in. As it is a great convenience in collating totals for the lists of birds ringed to be uniform in size and order, special forms have been...
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