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An Examination of incubation in its wider aspects based on Observation in North Cornwall

01 August 1943 Comments Main paper IT is my purpose here to examine the subject of incubation on a wider scale than in my first paper (antea, pp. 10-16). The present article must be regarded as a second chapter--or indeed a concluding chapter to the first. There I tried to draw the distinc... Read More

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... Read More

Some breeding-habits of the Black-winged Stilt

01 August 1941 Comments Main paper THE following observations on the Black-winged Stilt (Himantopus k. himantopus) were made in the Camargue at the end of April and early May, 1937. For many reasons I was unable to observe the full breeding cycle. These notes therefore refer only to the bi... Read More

Notes

01 August 1941 Comments Notes IN 1939, as already recorded in British Birds, Vol. xxxiii, p. 194, a male Hooded Crow (Corvus c. comix) and a female Carrion-Crow (C. c. cowrie) nested in Co. Dublin and successfully reared their young. In 1940, presumably the same pair again nested in ... Read More