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01 March 1945 Comments Letters SIRS,--I am collecting all the information I can on clutch size and nesting success in the Robin (Erithacus rubecula), and should be very grateful for any unpublished information which readers could supply. Every nest record is of value, both from Britain...

Reviews

01 March 1945 Comments Reviews Ornithological Report for Northumberland and Durham for 1943. Compiled by G. W. Temperley (The Naturalist, July-September, 1944). I N spite of war-time curtailment of opportunities for bird observation this carefully compiled report contains a noteworthy...

Notes

01 March 1945 Comments Notes IN reference to Mr. David Lack's note on Blackbirds (Turdus m. merula) singing in London at the end of January (antea, Vol. xxxviii, p. 116), in some parts of London such as Kensington, where there are many houses with gardens, it is quite exceptional fo...

Observations on a Scaup-Duck and Brood on the Lincolnshire Coast

01 March 1945 Comments Main paper O N August 7th, 1944, while studying birds on the salt-marsh round Tetney Creek, Lines., on the Humber estuary, I observed two or three smallish diving-duck which puzzled me ; and on August 8th, independently, S/Ldr. Peter Hill saw the birds in the same p...

Observations on the breeding Birds of Lundy in 1942

01 March 1945 Comments Main paper THROUGH the kindness of Mr. M. C. Harman, the owner, and by permission of the Admiralty the writers were able to spend from July 2nd to loth, 1942, on Lundy. The primary object was to investigate the status of the Manx Shearwater (Puffinus p. puffinus),'...

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01 January 1943 Comments Notes THE Handbook of British Birds states that on the continent Magpies may roost in hundreds, but I have not heard of a roost of any magnitude in this country. On March 30th, 1942 near Northallerton the chattering of Magpies (Pica p. pica) drew my attention ...

Obituary: Rear-Admiral Hubert Lynes (1874-1942)

01 January 1943 Comments Obituaries (1874-1942) ORNITHOLOGISTS all over the world and a host of friends will greatly deplore the loss of Rear-Admiral Lynes, whose death took place after a short illness on November 10th, 1942, at a Naval Hospital. Hubert Lynes was born on November 27th, 187...

An index to the Thames Kingfisher Recovery

01 January 1943 Comments Main paper THE winter of 1939-40 was an abnormally severe one in the British Isles. The weather and its effect on bird life have been summarised by Ticehurst and Witherby (antea Vol. xxxiv, pp. 118 and 142) who describe the devastating " bottle frost " --i.e. the th...

Reactions of Birds to Aircraft

01 January 1943 Comments Main paper is no doubt that the considerable increase in aviation in recent years has given rise to some speculation by ornithologists as to the reactions of birds to aircraft, and therefore some of my experiences in seven years of flying may be of interest. On aero...

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Letter

Reviews

Notes

Observations on a Scaup-Duck and Brood on the Lincolnshire Coast

Observations on the breeding Birds of Lundy in 1942

Notes

Obituary: Rear-Admiral Hubert Lynes (1874-1942)

An index to the Thames Kingfisher Recovery

Reactions of Birds to Aircraft

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