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01 May 1946 Comments Letters SIRS,--Mr. N. D. Pullen, Mr. H. G. Hurrell and Miss N. C. Hicks (antea, Vol. xxxviii, pp. 206, 300 and 360) have drawn attention t o an interesting problem of behaviour. I have observed t h e " digging " in the bottom of the nest, as described by the abov...

Notes

01 May 1946 Comments Notes DURING a continuation of observations on migration in the Trent Valley near Nottingham in 1945, the following species were noted, most of the records being the first for the county and therefore worthy of-record. ICTERINE WARBLER (Hippolais icterina),--A...

Some Remarks on Sex behaviour of Doves

01 May 1946 Comments Main paper The Handbook of British Birds' (Vol. v, p. 280) states on the authority of O. and M. Heinroth that the male Rock-Dove [Columba livid) feeds the female before coition. I think one may safely assume that the pairing ceremonials of the wild and domesticated ...

Studies of Some Species Rarely Photographed. IV. The Marsh-Warbler

01 May 1946 Comments Main paper (Plates 17-19). THE scarce and local Marsh-Warbler (Acrocephalus palustris) is only known to breed regularly in Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Dorset, Sussex and Kent. In some other counties, such as Oxfordshire, it appears to do so with fair...

Notes on the Breeding Biology of the Crested Lark

01 May 1946 Comments Main paper THE following observations on the breeding biology of the Asiatic race of the Crested Lark (Galerida cristata magna) were made near Gaza in southern Palestine in the months of May to July, 1944. Crested Larks were common residents on the dry, rolling down...

All the year Breeding of the Rock-Dove

01 May 1946 Comments Main paper Following my finding of Rock-Doves (Columba I. livia) in full nesting activity in January, 1944, at Eathie Shore by Cromarty, (antea, Vol. xxxvii, p. 237) I decided that it would be worth while to keep a watch on the nesting places all the year round ; fo...

Notes

01 April 1946 Comments Notes IN the autumn of 1945 I have noticed Jackdaws (Corvus monedula spermologus) frequenting two holes in different beeches close together, at Westerham, Kent, but have been unable to prove definitely that they were breeding. A Jackdaw was seen to leave one h...

Notes on the food of the Kestrel

01 April 1946 Comments Main paper THE following information has been gathered as the result of analyses of 206 pellets of the Kestrel (Fako t. timmnculus) collected at regular intervals between July 1st, 1944, and March 24th, 1945, from a roost in an old shed and are believed, from feathe...

Studies of Some Species Rarely Photographed. III. The Cirl Bunting

01 April 1946 Comments Main paper (Plates 15-16). THIS local species (Emberiza cirlus) is one of the comparatively small number of birds regularly breeding in the British Isles which may still fairly be classed in the present category. Some earlier observers concluded that only the femal...

Breeding of the Black Redstart in Britain: A Century-old record

01 April 1946 Comments Main paper IN 1916, seven years before T. A. Coward found the Black Redstart (Phcenicurus ochrurus gibraltariensis) breeding on the Sussex coast and so established what was then thought to be the first British record, F. C. R. Jourdain wrote an article in The Zoolog...

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Letters

Notes

Some Remarks on Sex behaviour of Doves

Studies of Some Species Rarely Photographed. IV. The Marsh-Warbler

Notes on the Breeding Biology of the Crested Lark

All the year Breeding of the Rock-Dove

Notes

Notes on the food of the Kestrel

Studies of Some Species Rarely Photographed. III. The Cirl Bunting

Breeding of the Black Redstart in Britain: A Century-old record

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