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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...

Notes on Breeding of Black Redstarts in Kent

01 February 1941 Comments Main paper IN the summer of 1940 I was fortunate enough to be able to make some observations on two pairs of Black Redstarts (Phasnicurus o. gibraltariensis), which I found breeding in the Medway area in Kent. I watched the first pair ("A") as often as possible and ...

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01 January 1941 Comments Notes ON November 2nd, 1940, in a field with small trees at the edge of a wood near Potter's Bar, I was fortunate enough to have an opportunity of watching a bird, which was evidently a Lesser Grey Shrike (Lanius minor). The bird flew to the top of a bare hawt...

Recovery of Marked Birds

01 January 1941 Comments Main paper Thornton - le - dale (Yorks), Bedlington (Northumb), 4.1.39, by R. M. Garnett. 7-3-4°Wetherby (Yorks), 30.1.2.39, by Preston (Lanes), --.2.40. Bootham School. Gt. Budworth (Ches), 12.11.38, Grantham (Lines), Spring, by A. W. Boyd. 194°Ditto 22.11.37. M...

Some Notes on the Scottish Crested Tit

01 January 1941 Comments Main paper THESE notes on the Scottish Crested Tit (Parus c. scoticus) are supplementary to those already published by Winifred M. Ross [i] and D. Nethersole-Thompson [2]. They are the result of four visits to the Cairngorm country in 1935, 1937, 1938 and 1940, duri...

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Christopher Merrett and his Pinax Rerum Naturalium Britannicarum

Further data on nest-Sanitation

Notes on Breeding of Black Redstarts in Kent

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Recovery of Marked Birds

Some Notes on the Scottish Crested Tit

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