Letter

01 December 1934 Comments Letters SIRS,--Messrs. H. Morrey Salmon and R. M. Lockley, in their paper on " The Grassholm Gannets--A Survey and a Census " (antea, Vol. X X V I I . , pp. 142-152) appear, in their historical survey of t h e colony, to have overlooked a paper dealing with the c...
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01 November 1934 Comments Letters SIRS,--In connection with Mr. Musselwhite's letter and t h e Editor's remarks under this heading (antea, p. 151), I may record t h a t a Blackbird (Tardus m. merula) hatched four young in 1934 in a nest on a branch of a cedar on m y lawn a t Cheddar, and ...
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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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01 September 1934 Comments Letters SIRS,--With reference to the extremely interesting article by Lieut.Col. and Mrs. B. H . Ryves on the breeding-habits of the Corn-Bunting as observed in north Cornwall (Vol. X X V I I I . , pp. 2-26) and Mr. John Walpole-Bond's detailed study of the Susse...
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01 January 1934 Comments Letters SIRS,--Dr. and Mr. Lack have ranked me as a principal accomplice of Mr. H. Eliot Howard in their indictment of the territory theory and its perpetrators. (" Territory Reviewed," antea, p p . 179-199.) May I say t h a t I am proud to stand in the dock by t...
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01 January 1929 Comments Letters SIRS,--May I be spared a little space to invite the attention of your readers to the Annual Report of the Oxford Ornithological Society on the Birds of Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire. This Report, the last issue of which you were good enough t...
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