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Letters

01 January 1935 Comments Letters SIRS,--1 read with interest Mr. Rickman's note regarding the nesting oi the Pintail in Dumbartonshire (antea, p, 206). For many years I have kept and bred Pintail at Tullichewan, which is only about two or three miles from the spot where Mr. Rickman found...

A fly Parasitic on the Swallow

01 January 1935 Comments Main paper the enquiry, under the auspices of the British Trust for Ornithology, into the size of broods of the Swallow (Hirundo r. rustica), it has been found that the larvae of one of the blue-bottle flies, Protocalliphora caerulea R.-D. (also known as Phormia sor...

Territory in the Great Crested Grebe

01 December 1934 Comments Main paper I N their review of territory in bird life, D. and L. Lack (6) consider t h a t the claims for territory have been much exaggerated and that, especially, there is not adequate proof in any species t h a t territorial behaviour has food value. I t was furt...

Notes

01 October 1934 Comments Notes As records of the Snow-Bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis) from inland districts in the south are comparatively few, the following would appear to be of interest despite the fact t h a t one of the occurrences has remained unrecorded for over sixty years. Th...

The Great Crested Grebe enquiry

01 May 1933 Comments Main paper ...

The Great Crested Grebe Enquiry (1931) Scotland

01 March 1933 Comments Main paper IN the Great Crested Grebe Enquiry (1931) we were unable to obtain such detailed information for Scotland as for the rest of Great Britain, and therefore in the main report on the Enquiry (antea, pp. 90-92) only a summary of the results was given. In gene...

Notes

01 January 1933 Comments Notes {Pastor roseus).--On September loth, 1932, a Rose-coloured Starling was seen by Mr. J. H. Stubbs in a grass field close to the village of North Cotes with a small flock of Starlings. He saw it at a very short distance and his description was so good that...

Letters

01 November 1931 Comments Letters SIRS,---It so happened that, after reading the letter on this subject (antea.-p, 140), I had to consult The Gentleman's Magazine (Vol. XIX.), 1749. I t was curious therefore to come across the following (p. 204) : " The Egg of a Swan with another in it. G...