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01 November 1934 Comments Notes IN the Scottish Naturalist, 1926, p. 159, 0. H. Wild and J. M. McWilliam showed that the bills of the Twites (Carduelis flavirostris) in Islay, in the nesting-season, were not yellow, but definitely horn-coloured, with no trace of yellow. In May and June...

Some Breeding-Habits of the British Willow-Tit

01 November 1934 Comments Main paper F, WITHEEBY has recently described methods by which the Willow-Tit [Partis a. kleinschmidti) bores its nestinghole [aniea, Vol. XXVII., pp. 320-324). Unfortunately the pair of birds which he had under observation deserted the site before the nesting-hole...

Supplementary Notes on the Breeding-Habits of the Corn-Bunting as observed in North Cornwall in 1934

01 November 1934 Comments Main paper THESE notes on the Corn-Bunting [Emberiza c. calandra) are the results of further observations undertaken during the breeding-season of 1934 and should be read in conjunction with the work already done and published in British Birds, Vol. XXVIII., pp. 2-2...

Letters

01 October 1934 Comments Letters SIRS,--Mr. R. L. Brown, in his interesting notes on the Kingfisher (antea, p. 83), reports a pair of birds having a clutch several days incubated when they had at the same time a brood in an adjacent nest. The experience especially interested me because t...

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01 October 1934 Comments Notes As records of the Snow-Bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis) from inland districts in the south are comparatively few, the following would appear to be of interest despite the fact t h a t one of the occurrences has remained unrecorded for over sixty years. Th...

An Attacking Tawny Owl

01 October 1934 Comments Main paper SOME few years ago I decided to enlarge upon the ordinary types of nesting-boxes, with which the garden was already overstocked, and to branch out on a new line. Accordingly I constructed three very large and spacious boxes, which I deemed would be quite...

A Census of Water-Birds on the Highgate and Kenwood Ponds

01 October 1934 Comments Main paper THIS census was undertaken during the six months' period from New Year's Day to the end of June, 1934. Observations were made on the water-birds on the communicating chain of ponds in Kenwood and Highgate, on the east side of Hampstead Heath. There are in...

Letters

01 September 1934 Comments Letters SIRS,--With reference to the extremely interesting article by Lieut.Col. and Mrs. B. H . Ryves on the breeding-habits of the Corn-Bunting as observed in north Cornwall (Vol. X X V I I I . , pp. 2-26) and Mr. John Walpole-Bond's detailed study of the Susse...

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01 September 1934 Comments Notes A BLUE T I T (ParUS C. obscurus) had possession of one of my nesting boxes in Hampshire and laid an egg on each of four successive days. The next day, May 8th, no egg was laid, but another appeared on the 9th. I should say that I numbered each egg the da...

Movements of Ringed Birds from Abroad to the British Isles and from the British Isles Abroad

01 September 1934 Comments Main paper Only in the last few years have we obtained records to show the origin of our winter immigrant Rooks, but the information is now gradually accumulating. So far we have no ringing record of a British-bred Rook migrating oversea.*For previous parts see Vol....

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Notes

Some Breeding-Habits of the British Willow-Tit

Supplementary Notes on the Breeding-Habits of the Corn-Bunting as observed in North Cornwall in 1934

Letters

Notes

An Attacking Tawny Owl

A Census of Water-Birds on the Highgate and Kenwood Ponds

Letters

Notes

Movements of Ringed Birds from Abroad to the British Isles and from the British Isles Abroad

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