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 May 1933 Comments Letters S I R S , -- I n June, 1919, I found an undomed nest of a Chiffchaff (Phylloscopus c. collybita) with three young birds in a stunted hawthorn bush growing on a bankside near Wetheral, Cumberland. I t was a n open nest built of grasses and lined with feath...
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01 April 1933 Comments Letters S I R S , -- I t may be worth recording in connexion with t h e correspondence on this subject (antea, p p . 257-315) t o state t h a t in Wild Exmoor through the Year I reported a Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dryobates m. anglicus) drinking and bathing a t ...
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01 March 1933 Comments Letters S I R S , -- I am making an investigation into t h e extent t o which butterflies in t h e perfect or imaginal state are preyed upon in t h e British Isles by birds, and should be grateful for any first-hand observations, giving, where possible, t h e spe...
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01 February 1933 Comments Letters SIRS,---1 am in possession of letters relating to the birds of the following districts and if application is made to me a t the address below I am prepared to post them to those who may be sufficiently interested. Bedfordshire, Berks., Bucks., Cornwall, C...
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01 January 1933 Comments Letters SIRS,--The Cambridge Bird Club is endeavouring to collect all material relating to birds in Cambridgeshire, and it is hoped eventually to produce a county list. I should be extremely grateful if observers who can give me any information, on both common an...
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