Letter

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...
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Letter

01 September 1940 Comments Letters SIRS,--Since contributing m y paper on Mrs. C. L . E . Perrott's Selection of British Birds (antea, Vol. X X X I I , p . 122/126) I have learned t h a t there are extant two more copies of this book of which I thought t h e only copy in existence was t h ...
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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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Letters

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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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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Letters

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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Letters

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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