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01 October 1963 Comments Letters S I R S , -- W i t h reference to Mr. Masefield's note (antea, p . 270), fleas m a y generally b e found in T i t ' s nests in t h e winter, a n d during t h e first few warm days in spring m a y be seen waiting in numbers outside t h e hole ready to j u ...

Notes

01 October 1963 Comments Notes ON January 21st, 1914, I was shown a couple of very fine Pine-Grosbeaks (Pinicola e. enucleator) that had been, obtained the previous day at Brigbtling, Sussex. They were both males, and one was of a beautiful rosy colour and of a far more gaudy tint tha...

Obituary: The Late G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton.

01 October 1963 Comments Obituaries born 1871, B.A. Cambridge 1894 (first-class in the Natural Science Tripos in the same list with his friend Dr. E. A. Wilson), Major oth (Militia) Battalion Royal Irish Rifles, in which he served during the South African war, Hon. Captain in the Army, P.Z...

Notes on the Birds of Wiltshire

01 October 1963 Comments Main paper SINCE the appearance of the Rev, A. C. Smith's Birds of Wiltshire in 1887 many new county records have naturally occurred. I now propose to give the more interesting of those I have collected, some of which have heen published before, but many of which ar...

The Courtship of the Common Gull.

01 October 1963 Comments Main paper O N May 9th, 1913, I found a colony of about twenty pairs of Common Gulls (Larus c. camts) nesting on a small island in a freshwater loch in the Outer Hebrides. The islet was occupied also by about the same number of pairs of Black-headed Gulls (Larus rid...

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01 December 1940 Comments Letters SIRS,--For some years past, Mr. Charles Oldham has regularly published observations on t h e midsummer movements of Swallows, House- and Sand-Martins and Swifts at t h e Tring and Elstree Reservoirs in t h e Transactions of the Herts Nat. Hist. Soc. An id...

Notes

01 December 1940 Comments Notes DURING a visit to Achill Island from June 6th to 16th, 1938, I made records of species seen, and my observations may be of interest as a supplement to the paper by Mr. R. S. R. Fitter in the issue of British Birds for November, 1940. I covered most of th...

A Note on the Songs of Chaffinches and Yellow Buntings

01 December 1940 Comments Main paper IN the course of my study of the songs of birds, I have come across a factor in the make-up of the song of the Chaffinch (Fringilla c. gengleri), which, from the complete absence of any reference to it in such essays on bird song as I have read, would app...

The Development of the Song in Young Chaffinches

01 December 1940 Comments Main paper DURING the last five years I have had several opportunities, at various times of the year, of observing young Chaffinches (Fringilla c. gengleri) and of tracing the development oftheir typical spring song. Three stages are distinguishable during the cours...

Review

01 November 1940 Comments Reviews A Waterhen's Worlds. By Eliot Howard. (Cambridge University Press) Illustrated, ios. 6d, net. I T has been rightly observed t h a t a new book by Mr. Eliot Howard is always an event in the ornithological world. His last work, The Nature of a Bird's World,...

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Letters

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Obituary: The Late G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton.

Notes on the Birds of Wiltshire

The Courtship of the Common Gull.

Letter

Notes

A Note on the Songs of Chaffinches and Yellow Buntings

The Development of the Song in Young Chaffinches

Review

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