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Letters

01 March 1963 Comments Letters SIES,--Mr. Glegg's note in your current number (Vol. VII., p. 56) concerning the nest of this species which he found beside one of the reservoirs a t Walthamstow on J u n e 11th, hardly does full justice to the extraordinary wealth of bird-life to be seen...

Notes

01 March 1963 Comments Notes IT is gratifying to see Mr. C. S. Meares's note on th Crossbill (Loxia c. curvirostra) breeding in Shropshire an Norfolk (British Birds, Vol. VI., p. 371), and to find that i has also bred in Surrey (Countryside, Vol. V., p. 387). Ther can be no doubt as...

The Sequence of Plumages of the Common Eider

01 March 1963 Comments Main paper accounts have appeared in the works of naturalists on the subject of the plumage of the male and female Eider (Somateria m. mollissima) and the age at which the sexes arrive at maturity. In nearly all of these there is much guesswork owing to the small se...

Obituary: The Late Philip Lutley Sclater

01 March 1963 Comments Obituaries W E greatly regret to announce the death, on June 27th, 1913, as the result of a carriage accident, of Philip Lutley Sclater, D.Sc, F.R.S., at the age of eightythree years. The loss of so eminent an ornithologist will be deeply felt by all bird-lovers, an...

Notes

01 September 1941 Comments Notes A NEST of this bird (Muscicapa s. striata) was begun on May 27th, 1941 on the top of a nesting-box in an alcove of my house in Bucks, but was later abandoned, owing probably to the nesting material slipping off the smooth lid. The Flycatchers then turned...

Christopher Merrett and his Pinax Rerum Naturalium Britannicarum

01 September 1941 Comments Main paper CHRISTOPHER MERRETT, the son of Christopher Merret, was born at Winchcomb, in Gloucestershire, on February 16th, 1614. In 1631 he became a member of Gloucester Hall, Oxford, and later removed to Oriel College. He took his B.A. degree in 1635, and then--de...

Further data on nest-Sanitation

01 September 1941 Comments Main paper THE present paper is a natural sequel to that by R. H. Blair and B. W. Tucker (antea, Vol. xxxiv, pp. 206-215, 226-235, 2 50-255). That paper, it may be recalled, summarized the observations on the nest-sanitation of over 70 species collected in the cours...