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01 January 1932 Comments Notes SOME Waxwings (Bombycilla ^arrulus) have reached Norfolk during the last few weeks. On November 3rd, 1931, one was picked up alive at Kelling, under telegraph wires, by the local police constable, but it died and was unfortunately taken by a cat. Some wi...
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01 October 1931 Comments Notes --Ringers are reminded that all schedules with lists of birds they have ringed during the season should now be sent in. As it is a great convenience in collating totals for the lists of birds ringed to be uniform in size and order, special forms have been...
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01 August 1931 Comments Notes ON June 2nd, 1931, I was able to identify an Ortolan Bunting (Emberiza hortulana) on Skokholm. As it was in an exhausted state I was able to examine it from within three yards, as it rested in a niche of my garden wall. The small, reddisri bill was unmis...
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01 June 1931 Comments Notes ON May 14th, 1931, a Hawfinch {Coccothraustes c. coccoihraustes), apparently a male, flew across in front of my car on the Perth-Blairgowrie road, about if miles from Perth. As far as I am aware this is the first record in the county for about five years...
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01 May 1929 Comments Notes IN April, 1926, close to my house in Mawgan-in-Pydar, north Cornwall, I found the nest of a Long-tailed Tit (Mgithalos c. rosea) in a low thorn bush, in process of construction. When incubation was commenced, I noticed the tip of the bird's tail projecti...
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01 March 1929 Comments Notes SALTER reports a pair of Lesser Whitethroats (Sylvia c. curruca) at Aberystwyth from May 6th, 1928, onwards. The male was heard singing till July 2nd. This is a new record for the district, as the species is decidedly rare on the western seaboard of Wale...
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01 January 1929 Comments Notes ON May 4th, 1928, I watched a Goldfinch (Carduelis c. britannica) snapping off the stalks, about two inches from the head, of some " Forget-me-nots " (Myosotis) in our garden in west Sussex. The bird, which was accompanied by a second bird, soon flew off...
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01 December 1928 Comments Notes T H E following incubation- and fledging-periods were obtained in 1928 (A) in west Sussex, (B) in north Wilts.; the incubation-periods being calculated from the day on which the last egg was laid and the fledging-periods from the day or days of hatching ...
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01 November 1928 Comments Notes IN the following cases during 1928, from west Sussex, the period of incubation has been calculated from the day on which the last egg was laid until the day or days of hatching. The fledging-period from the day or days of hatching until the day or days o...
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01 September 1928 Comments Notes " RINGERS " are requested to send in to the Editor, not later than October 1st, their schedules, together with a list showing the number of each species ringed. BLUE-HEADED WAGTAIL BREEDING IN NORTH ENGLAND. IT was so long ago as 1869-70 that Motacilla f...
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