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01 July 1943 Comments Reviews Adventurers Fen. Written and illustrated by E, A. R. Ennion. (Methuen). IOS. 6d. D R . ENNION'S account of the vicissitudes of the Cambridge fen he has known and loved for forty years has much to attract and interest the naturalist and country lover. At f...

Notes

01 July 1943 Comments Notes NOTES FROM CUMBERLAND (Bombycilia garrulus).--Single bird near Cumdivock on December 27th, 1939. HEDGE-SPARROW (Prunella m. occidentalis).--During three weeks of frost in January 1941 as many as ten birds were noticed feeding quietly together amongst the...

Census of Swallows and House-Martins in the Sedbergh District, N.W. Yorkshire

01 July 1943 Comments Main paper T H E two squares (C.4 & C.5.) of the ordnance survey m a p (Sheet 20) which were covered by the two censuses contain for the most part a valley which is grassland, parts of which are now under cultivation. The valley is no lower than 400 ft. above sea-le...

Brood-Patches and the Physiology of incubation

01 July 1943 Comments Main paper THE present paper is prompted by Lt.-Col. B. H. Ryves's interesting communication on the r61es of male birds in relation to incubation (antea, pp. 10-16). It provides no new data, but merely aims at summarizing for the benefit of those interested some asc...

Notes

01 June 1938 Comments Notes As I have not been able to find any record of the HouseSparrow (Passer A. domesticus) excavating a nesting hole in rotten wood, such an occurrence seems to be worth recording. Both the cock and the hen excavated, both birds sometimes being in the confine...

Notes on the Land-Rail

01 June 1938 Comments Main paper IN Cumberland the Land-Rail (Crex crex) nests commonly in the clover-hay and meadow-hay fields ; sometimes in young plantations where the trees have not yet smothered the grass, and occasionally in the waste land of small bushes and rough grass about coun...

Some observations on the breeding-habits of birds

01 June 1938 Comments Main paper THE following data regarding some of our commoner birds were obtained in mid-Gloucestershire during the years 1930-33. The district consisted of fields divided by hedges and stone walls, and was mainly a grazing one, but there was some arable land and inc...

The spring migration of the Swallow over Europe

01 June 1938 Comments Main paper (Plate I.) THE accompanying map, showing the isochronal lines for the northward movement of the Swallow (Himndo r. rustica) oyer Europe in spring, is the first of a small series of species studies, which it is proposed to make on roughly the same lines. T...

Additions and Alterations to the British list

01 June 1938 Comments Main paper THE following changes appearing in Volume I. of the Handbook of British Birds have not previously been notified in these pages and as the reasons are fully explained in the Handbook it is not necessary to repeat them here.CORVUS for the Jackdaws instead o...

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Reviews

Notes

Census of Swallows and House-Martins in the Sedbergh District, N.W. Yorkshire

Brood-Patches and the Physiology of incubation

Notes

Notes on the Land-Rail

Some observations on the breeding-habits of birds

The spring migration of the Swallow over Europe

Additions and Alterations to the British list

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