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01 July 1943 Comments Reviews Adventurers Fen. Written and illustrated by E, A. R. Ennion. (Methuen). IOS. 6d. D R . ENNION'S account of the vicissitudes of the Cambridge fen he has known and loved for forty years has much to attract and interest the naturalist and country lover. At f...

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01 July 1943 Comments Notes NOTES FROM CUMBERLAND (Bombycilia garrulus).--Single bird near Cumdivock on December 27th, 1939. HEDGE-SPARROW (Prunella m. occidentalis).--During three weeks of frost in January 1941 as many as ten birds were noticed feeding quietly together amongst the...

Census of Swallows and House-Martins in the Sedbergh District, N.W. Yorkshire

01 July 1943 Comments Main paper T H E two squares (C.4 & C.5.) of the ordnance survey m a p (Sheet 20) which were covered by the two censuses contain for the most part a valley which is grassland, parts of which are now under cultivation. The valley is no lower than 400 ft. above sea-le...

Brood-Patches and the Physiology of incubation

01 July 1943 Comments Main paper THE present paper is prompted by Lt.-Col. B. H. Ryves's interesting communication on the r61es of male birds in relation to incubation (antea, pp. 10-16). It provides no new data, but merely aims at summarizing for the benefit of those interested some asc...

Notes

01 April 1943 Comments Notes MARTINSON of Foresters Lodge, Wolsingham, in the Wear valley, rcports that from January ioth to 28th, 1943, he had under Observation five Two-barred Crossbills (Loxia l. bifasciala). Flocks of the Common Crossbill (Loxia c. curvirostra) have been present...

Bird Notes from Lincolnshire, 1934-1942

01 April 1943 Comments Main paper THE following records from Lincolnshire over the past nine years it is hoped may provide some interest in that as the period concerned is of some length, some idea of the frequency of the occurrences of some of the species mentioned may be furnished. Ther...

Report of the Bird-Ringing Committee

01 April 1943 Comments Main paper THIS is the sixth report* issued on behalf of the Bird-Ringing Committee of the British Trust for Ornithology, continuing the earlier sequence of reports by H. F. Witherby published from 1910 onwards under the title " The British Birds Marking Scheme." Ac...

The index of Heron Population, 1942

01 April 1943 Comments Main paper THE number of heronries concerning which reports for 1942 have been received at the Edward Grey Institute was only 90, of which only 2 were in Scotland, only 4 in Wales and none in south-east England. Major A. W. Boyd again collected statistics for nearly...

NOTES ON ALBERTA WADERS INCLUDED ON THE BRITISH LIST

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NOTES ON CUCKOOS IN 1930

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Reviews

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Census of Swallows and House-Martins in the Sedbergh District, N.W. Yorkshire

Brood-Patches and the Physiology of incubation

Notes

Bird Notes from Lincolnshire, 1934-1942

Report of the Bird-Ringing Committee

The index of Heron Population, 1942

NOTES ON ALBERTA WADERS INCLUDED ON THE BRITISH LIST

NOTES ON CUCKOOS IN 1930

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