Notes

01 December 1944 Comments Notes I HAVE previously (antea, Vol. xxxiii, p. 265) given examples from the Robin (Erithacus rubecula) and the Blackcock (Lyrurus tetrix) of a male attempting to disturb the coition of another pair. Similar behaviour is characteristic of geese and swans, as n...
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Reviews

01 June 1944 Comments Reviews Report of the Oxford Ornithological Society on the Birds of Oxfordshire, Berkshire ' and Buckinghamshire, 1942. Edited by B . W. Tucker (University Museum, Oxford). T H I S report, which shows how well t h e society maintains its activity, contains as us...
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Notes

01 December 1942 Comments Notes a short visit to Lundy in September, 1942, we identified a Lapland Bunting {Cakarius lapponicus) on the high barren area at the north end of the island on September ioth. The species has not previously been met with on Lundy, nor in the county of Devon. ...
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Notes

01 August 1936 Comments Notes A NEST of a Carrion-Crow (Corvus c. corone) in a willow tree in Walland Marsh, Kent, had a clutch of eggs which was taken on April 12th, 1936. On May 17th, the nest contained another clutch of eggs which were exactly like the first. The nest did not appe...
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Notes

01 February 1935 Comments Notes FOR the last few years I have examined a number of Jays killed in Essex, in the hope of finding the Continental form. On November 22nd, 1934, one, a female, was shot at Longwood, Layer Marney, Essex, which had the lower mantle and back greyer than usual....
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Letters

01 October 1934 Comments Letters SIRS,--Mr. R. L. Brown, in his interesting notes on the Kingfisher (antea, p. 83), reports a pair of birds having a clutch several days incubated when they had at the same time a brood in an adjacent nest. The experience especially interested me because t...
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Notes

01 October 1933 Comments Notes DURING June, 1933,1 spent a few days at Tomdoun, Glengarry, west Inverness, and had much conversation about the birds of the region with Mr. Murdoch Matheson, head gamekeeper and deer-stalker in Glengarry. Mr. Matheson has a very wide knowledge of the lo...
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Notes

01 July 1933 Comments Notes WITH but the following exception I cannot personally call to mind the Rook (Corvus f. frugilegus) selecting this tree for nesting purposes. Last year several nests were built in a row of these spire-shaped trees at Chaddesley Corbett, Worcestershire, and...
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