Variations in Chaffinch Song

01 August 1943
Comments Main paper WORKING at first with four birds (A, B, C and D) I made the following observations on the songs of Chaffinches (FringiUa c. gengleri) in a coastal area of south Devon during the spring of 1942. B and C held adjacent territories and their songs were inter...
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Review

01 August 1943
Comments Reviews A Study of the Little Owl (Athene noctua) in New Zealand. By B. J. Marples. Trans. R. Soc. of New Zealand, Vol. 72, Part 3, pages 237-252, December, 1942 . M R . MARPLES undertook, in 1938, to make a thorough investigation of t h e Little Owl from every p...
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Notes

01 August 1943
Comments Notes As already briefly noted (antea Vol. xxxvi, p. 225) Crossbills (Loxia c. curvirostra) were reported in various districts in unusual numbers in the late summer and autumn of 1942. In response to our request, observers have sent information, details of whi...
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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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