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01 January 1947 Comments Letters SIRS.--dingers who t r a p adult or first-winter Starlings during January t o March would serve a very useful purpose by noting whether t h e eye is entirely dark or has a narrow light ring, and t h e Â« x t e n t t o which t h e bill has begun t o turn...

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01 January 1947 Comments Reviews The Hastings and East Sussex Naturalist: Notes on the Local Fauna and Flora for 1945. By N. F . Ticehurst (Recorder). T H I S interesting area again produces a number of noteworthy records. The chief ornithological event mentioned is the breeding of Black...

Notes

01 January 1947 Comments Notes As INSTANCES of "injury-feigning" on the part of the Meadow-Pipit (Anthus pratensis) are rare the following may be worth recording. On June 15th, 1946, in Co. Kerry, I disturbed a Meadow-Pipit from its nest, which contained five eggs. The bird flew a dis...

Aggressive display of the Ringed Plover

01 January 1947 Comments Main paper THIS account, and the accompanying photographs, are the result of an investigation into the aggressive displays of the Ringed Plover (Charadrius h. hiaticula). The displays were evoked by means of a stuffed specimen of a Ringed Plover, and by the use of a...

Observations on the Territory and breeding behaviour of the Willow-Warbler

01 January 1947 Comments Main paper DURING the spring and summer of 1944 I spent some time in making a preliminary study of the Willow-Warbler (Phylloscopus t. trochilus), following this in 1945 by a more detailed investigation. It is chiefly on the latter that the present paper is based, ...

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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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Notes

Aggressive display of the Ringed Plover

Observations on the Territory and breeding behaviour of the Willow-Warbler

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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