Letters

01 August 1946 Comments Letters --The habit, referred to by several contributors to this and the previous volume T f this journal (antea, Vol. xxxviii, pp. 206, 300, 360, Vol. > xxxix, pp. 159,160) in which parent birds of many species probe into the nest lining beneath the young, has b...
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Review

01 August 1946 Comments Reviews Glossarium Europce Avium. By Harriet I. J0rgensen and Cecil I. Blackburne. · Einar Mimksgaard, Copenhagen, 1941. T H I S invaluable little book, prepared before the war and published in Copenhagen in 1941, has as yet had little' opportunity of demonstrat...
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Notes

01 August 1946 Comments Notes As there is no mention in The Handbook of British Birds of a female Greenfinch (Chloris ch. chloris) singing, the following may be worthy of note. 1 have in my garden near Crawley, Sussex, a nest of this species in a cypress-tree, which hatched on May 21...
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Notes

01 November 1928 Comments Notes IN the following cases during 1928, from west Sussex, the period of incubation has been calculated from the day on which the last egg was laid until the day or days of hatching. The fledging-period from the day or days of hatching until the day or days o...
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