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Birds seen on an autumn and a spring Atlantic Crossing

01 November 1939 Comments Main paper IN the autumn of 1938 and the spring of 1935 I made voyages across the Atlantic. The first one was in the "Europa" from Cherbourg to New York and the secondin the "Columbie" from Guadeloupe in the Leeward Isles to Plymouth. Several hours counting of birds... Read More

Letter

01 November 1939 Comments Letters SIRS,--The extension of the breeding range of the Lapwing {Vanellus vanellus) to Fokstumyren referred to in my previous letter (antea, p. 118) is certainly recent. Neither H. Tho. L. Schaanning in 1917 nor H. L. Ldvenskiold in 1929 and 1930 found the bird... Read More

Notes

01 November 1939 Comments Notes FOR some seven years I have marked Chaffinches (Fringilla c. gengleri) frequenting my garden with coloured rings for identification. One pair so marked mated and fed young in a copse opposite my gate in June, 1937. In the spring of 1938 the same pair nes... Read More

Notes

01 May 1938 Comments Notes ON March 3rd, 1938, at Cambridge sewage farm we observed a Pipit which we were able to identify as a Water-Pipit (Anthus s. spinoletta). It was first seen feeding amongst other birds (Meadow-Pipits, Pied Wagtails and waders) on one of the tanks and its d... Read More